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To: A. Pole


I understand that socialism is all about giving orders and forcing others to do your bidding under the compulsion of the state. What you suggest is essentially legalizing the crime of violent interference in things not one's own business, this is what humans do with the power you advocate.

The politics of the minimum wage debate is that the left has been able to convince the right to agree that it is about forcing EMPLOYERS to pay a certain wage. This theory neglects the fact that it takes two to tango. Moreover, the LEAD in that dance is not the employer, it's the employee. The REAL target of the left is not employers who want to PAY less, but employees who are willing to CHARGE less. Behind every wage control law there is a bunch of people who are threatened by their neighbours' willingness to do the same job for LESS. It's the same mentality that leads closed-shop unionists to call replacement labour "scabs".


64 posted on 02/05/2007 5:29:45 PM PST by freeforall
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To: freeforall
" Behind every wage control law there is a bunch of people who are threatened by their neighbours' willingness to do the same job for LESS. It's the same mentality that leads closed-shop unionists to call replacement labour "scabs".
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Same principle behind resistance to immigration, too. As a anti immigration protectionist who dislikes McDonalds and earns a nice multiple of the minimum wage I sure as hell do NOT want my food prepared by some poor sot making seven bucks an hour, nor do I want to tip; my negotiation is with the owner via the menu and deciding to eat there or not, not with getting my jollies by deciding who much to tip the worker.
96 posted on 02/06/2007 9:15:16 AM PST by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, Deport all illegals, abolish the IRS, ATF and DEA)
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