[Maurice Tift]

  The entire Washington Times article didn't mention a single thing that Romney will actually do as president. Parts of Romney's recent speech are quoted, but many of the quotes consisted mostly of platitudes.

  We do know that one of the few times that Romney mentioned a specific plan, it involved indexing the minimum wage to inflation and that alone would be a disaster. We need to move very very quickly away from central planning and toward real freedom, the elimination of direct taxation, a huge reduction in the size of government including the elimination of entire departments (all the ones Perry mentioned and more) and the repeal of so many burdensome regulations. Most of us don't see that in Romney and that's why we are nervous.

[HiTech RedNeck]

As a businessman, Mitt ought to know what a turkey Federal minimum wage rules are. It makes a whole class of casual workers and casual jobs simply impossible. Instead of getting paid “lousy” the class gets paid nothing.

This might be a damage control proposal that takes it off the Democrat political football field. In the meantime broader exemptions could be put in place.

[entropy12]

indexing the minimum wage to inflation and that alone would be a disaster

This is one issue on which Romney may be correct (he may not be even aware of it). I have seen actual figures proving the current minimum wage would have been lower than current level if it was indexed for CPI from day 1. The reason is congress has raised minimum wage levels in larger jumps than rise in CPI in corresponding periods.