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Sticking It to Low-Skilled Workers
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| Jan 10, 2007
| John Stossel
Posted on 01/13/2007 6:02:39 PM PST by george76
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posted on
01/13/2007 6:02:41 PM PST
by
george76
To: FreedomProtector
Another issue that's not often taken into consideration is there's a difference between what a worker takes home in pay and his total compensation. Employers must pay for legally required worker benefits that include Social Security, Medicare, unemployment insurance, workers' compensation, health and disability insurance benefits, and whatever paid leave benefits they offer, such as vacations, holidays and sick leave.
It's tempting to think of higher minimum wages as an anti-poverty weapon, but such an idea doesn't even pass the smell test. After all, if higher minimum wages could cure poverty, we could easily end worldwide poverty simply by telling poor nations to legislate higher minimum wages.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/williams042606.asp
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posted on
01/13/2007 6:05:46 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
I hope they raise it to $15/hour. It would be a boon to the robotics industry as well as end immigration for low skilled jobs overnight.
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posted on
01/13/2007 6:08:35 PM PST
by
Reeses
To: george76
Nobody's talking about the Journeyman's pay. His pay is set at a certain multiple of the entry level pay in many cases.Depends on his contract. Be sure his Union will be around soon to set things right. You can bet ALL the Senators know this too.
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posted on
01/13/2007 6:13:27 PM PST
by
Waco
To: george76
I think some companies counter that by using more 'part' time workers, which do not require some of those benefits you mentioned. Correct?
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posted on
01/13/2007 6:22:01 PM PST
by
FLOutdoorsman
(The Man who says it can't be done should not interrupt the man doing it!)
To: Waco
Nobody's talking about the Journeyman's pay. His pay is set at a certain multiple of the entry level pay in many cases. All the Senators know this.
The union bosses do not talk about it openly.
More dues for the union bosses.
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posted on
01/13/2007 6:24:42 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
i'm not for mandated wages.
This article has me scratchin my head.
Only 2.5 percent of all hourly workers make $5.15 an hour ...says the Department of Labor. "Minimum wage workers tend to be young."
If this statement is true, then the effect of the increase of minimum wage should be negligible.
There must be something more to this being such a big-deal.
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posted on
01/13/2007 6:27:31 PM PST
by
stylin19a
To: FLOutdoorsman
Moving jobs to part time and to off shore are two ways to try to cut expenses.
Also sub-contracting work to outside vendors is another way.
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posted on
01/13/2007 6:27:40 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: stylin19a
The big deal is the politics.
The politicans can say that they are helping the poor.
The old media goes along with the theatre by writing articles on how this helps the poor.
A few like Walter Williams, John Stossel, and Thomas Sowell see thru the smoke...
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posted on
01/13/2007 6:32:49 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
I propose that the Federal Minimum Wage must be increased to the same wage that Speaker Pelosi earns because most minimum wage employees earn the money they work for. I'm not so sure about Pelosi.
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posted on
01/13/2007 6:35:07 PM PST
by
harpo11
To: Reeses
Senator Rockefeller from West Virginia apparently once was complaining that his neighborhood was getting too crowded with doctors, etc.
So he proposed higher local property taxes to keep out the newly rich that were invading the old rich areas.
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posted on
01/13/2007 6:38:19 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: stylin19a
If this statement is true, then the effect of the increase of minimum wage should be negligible.
There must be something more to this being such a big-deal.
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The minimum wage is a benchmark. If it goes up 20%, all the union guys are supposed to get a 20% increase in their wages, so they stay ahead of the minimum wage guys. See how it works?
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posted on
01/13/2007 6:38:57 PM PST
by
Cheburashka
( World's only Spatula City certified spatula repair and maintenance specialist!!!)
To: harpo11
Speaker Pelosi's husband ''just happens'' to own a big chunk of land which used to belong to the Federal Government (us taxpayers) : Hunters Point Naval Shipyards.
Her protégé, Gavin Newsom, current Mayor of San Francisco, is trying to strike up a deal where the San Francisco 49ers will get that land and stay in the city, rather than moving to Santa Clara and building a new stadium down there.
But there seems to be some problem with the Naval shipyard being a Superfund cleanup site.
Stand by for developments as the blinkless wonder simultaneously cleans up corruption in Congress, and finds a way around this ''Inconvenient Truth.''
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posted on
01/13/2007 6:41:34 PM PST
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: george76
To: george76
I lived in a quonset hut at Hunter's Point while my dad's ship was being repaired. I was about 3 years old at the time. I recall being there for Easter in 1959.
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posted on
01/13/2007 6:48:24 PM PST
by
Myrddin
To: george76
Let's really do something for the poor. Let's raise the minimum wage to $20 an hour. Even better, $50! Even better, $500 million an hour!!!
I'm so tired of reading this infantile argument.
Perhaps we should allow sweat shops to pay 25 cents an hour if that's what they can get away with.
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posted on
01/13/2007 6:49:59 PM PST
by
Jorge
To: Cheburashka
The minimum wage is a benchmark. If it goes up 20%, all the union guys are supposed to get a 20% increase in their wages, so they stay ahead of the minimum wage guys. See how it works? Which explains why unions are disappearing.
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posted on
01/13/2007 6:51:55 PM PST
by
Jorge
To: All
There are only two reasons that I can think of to legislate an increase in the minimum wage.
1. It will give there union buddies more bargaining power come negotiation time.
2. It will increase the money they have to buy more votes via the increase in wage taxes.
They're all crooks !!!!
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posted on
01/13/2007 6:52:56 PM PST
by
Jeffrey_D.
(Seek first to understand, then to be understood)
To: Jorge
Why not...if they can find people to work at those wages.
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posted on
01/13/2007 6:54:44 PM PST
by
SamAdams76
(I'm 66 days from outliving Steve Irwin)
To: george76
The other reason that Pelosi is nervous about the Samoa revelation is the proof that the minimum raise gets people fired. She's not just protecting her own corruption, she's protecting the whole philosophy (such as it is) of the Democrat Party.
Congressman Billybob
Latest article: "Nancy's Culture of Corruption, Part II"
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posted on
01/13/2007 6:54:49 PM PST
by
Congressman Billybob
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