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Politics : View from the Center and Left

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To: Steve Lokness who wrote (49056)2/14/2008 1:13:12 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 543141
 
Case Studies on the Minimum Wage

OK, I will begin this post with what I guess is, for some, a damning admision: My company pays many of its employees minimum wage.

I believe that I have a very honorable relationship with my employees, but for many, particularly on the left, the fact that I pay minimum wage puts me at the approximate moral level of a forced labor camp gaurd. For those of you that feel that way, you might as well move on now because this post will just irritate you further.

I want to present four case studies from my own business as to what happens to workers and consumers when minimum wages go up. For the purpose of this post, I will leave out the philosophical argument of why voters or politicians should even have the right to interfere in the free decision-making between employer and employee...

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