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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: bentway who wrote (789203)6/11/2014 2:33:46 PM
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Hi bentway; Re: "I support the TP in that. But answer me this, is the TP against raising the minimum wage? It seems (R)'s in general are, but is the TP? If so, why?";

(1) The tea party really doesn't exist and doesn't have a platform to run on. That said, I'll try and channel them.

(2) The tea party is generally against the extension of federal power beyond what is in the Constitution. The Constitution does not include any language that directly allows the federal government to prevent people from hiring one another. So the tea party would be against any minimum wage.

(3) As a practical matter, wages are a local issue; the "living wage" for a given location depends *heavily* on the location. In most of the high dollar neighborhoods where limousine liberals live, $15/hour is chump change. In some rural areas, it's a *lot* of money. And the Federal government is amazingly ineffective and inefficient at running detailed programs. So minimum wages should be a local issue.

If you want a society where the least well paid person earns a substantial fraction of a CEO (other than the stock market income which is ridiculously high and is another topic), the tea party way to do that is to *not* import huge numbers of low income wage earners. By the law of supply and demand, open borders means low wages. Raising the minimum wage will not repeal the law of supply and demand. It will simply make those high wage jobs more rare and difficult to obtain.

By the way, a great example of a local government raising the minimum wage for workers in that region only is Seattle raising the wage to $15 per hour. This makes a lot of sense in that the cost of living in Seattle is considerably higher than in most of the rest of the state. It might work out reasonably well, but my guess is that it will mean that business will be a lot more careful about who they hire. This will attract more high quality workers and throw low quality workers out of the job force (and when unemployed, they'll vote Democrat, LOL).

-- Carl
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