Posted on 07/25/2007 10:45:52 AM PDT by DCJeanGrey
Hell, why not raise it to $97.00 an hour? Or $970.00 an hour? Or maybe $97,000,000.00 an hour? That way everyone can be a millionaire, because after all, we are all equally entitled to the fruits of success!
Note my dripping sarcasm.
Dems: chopping off the lowest rungs of the economic ladder too keep a loyal base off the ladder.
By the way, is there any constitutional basis for a federal minimum wage. Maybe if you tied the commerce clause in a knot you could argue that companies involved in interstate commerce could be made to comply. But that doesn't explain how a little mom and pop shop doing local business only could be forced to comply with a federal minimum wage.
Just another symptom of the unraveling of our country. Anyone with a clue understands that artifically setting the wage for workers is folly. But, when the masses are given the power to vote themselves entitlements, they do so. The average American has no clue what the impact of the minimum wage is on the economy, or on them, beyond knowing that those working for the minimum wage can get a raise.
While I believe neither political party cares about what’s good for America anymore, we know Democrats will cater to lower income Americans to secure their power.
Raising the minimum wage won’t ruin America, but it’s a symptom of what is ruining America.
There's no constitutional basis for 90% of everything the Fed government does these days.
As Vin Suprynowicz put it:
Like that's never been done before. ;-)
Do not ever, ever compromise with a liberal. It's just a slower path to the Dark Side.
Now you've gone too far. $96,999,999.00 an hour is plenty.
I’m against a minimum wage, but to avoid it being a constant political issue, why not just base it on some market percentage that fluctuates with the economy and let it adjust itself?
Why not $50 an hour.
It’s only money.....
Meanwhile last figures I saw was private sector union membership was ~7.4% in 2006 and is the lowest it has been in recent history.
It gets difficult to buy into thinking those labor activists/leaders speak in any way for labor as labor has been voting with its feet and have managed to avoid their representation.
Only people they can speak for is the small (small enough you could probably argue theyre irrelevant) number that were (for the most part, I suspect) compelled to join as a condition of employment.
Maybe somebody ought to point that out to them.
As for Clinton and others its interesting that they favor a womans right to choose when it comes to terminating a pregnancy but arent in favor if it when it comes to compulsory union membership in closed-shop states.
But whatever
Hey comeon! Lets be fare. The Democraps are looking for winning the McVote block of the fast food nation!
On the bright side, however, the only way the minimum wage hike is bad is if people are going to take the extra money and bury it somewhere. Otherwise, it will be spending capital that circulates back into the economy.
As long a minimum wage remains lower then the actual lowest wage paid I’m OK with it.
The market has already moved the ‘minimum wage’ well above the federal level (in my area).
In that sense they are all just arguing about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.
I suggest that the government just institute a single wage for everybody... Then you just have to work as many hours as you need to live... I think $100.00 an hour would be a good place to start. So if you want to be able to afford to live a lifestyle of someone who makes $20,000, you would only have to work about 4 hours a week! If you wanted to have a $200,000 a year lifestyle, you would have to work 40 hours a week!
Simple, huh?
OK, never mind that the McDonalds “Dollar Value Menu” would now be a $200.00 value menu.
The higher the minimum wage, the more distortion. The median income in the USA is about $40k per year or a little less. 40K = $20 per hour. Make the minimum wage $40K per year and job will go away, harming low skilled workers from gaining work experience, etc. Raising the wage from 5 to $6 per hour is not as damaging, since the market generally pays more than those wages, but the higher you go, the more it seriously infringes on the free market.
It’s all show and mirrors.
Raise the minimum wage and you cause a recession and firings.
They will make the cost of everything rise so the raise ends up meaning nothing anyway.
$97,000,000.00 an hour? No way, man. No blue collar job on earth is worth more than about $5,000,000.00 an hour.
the grand panderama tour continues....
the grand panderama tour continues....
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