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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (15569)	9/4/2001 11:50:52 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

The minimum wage law is based on a faulty premise - that the state can command an employer to lose money. If a job doesn't produce the value of the minimum wage, either the job doesn't get done, or the employer and employee conspire to break the law and go into the black market - and break the tax withholding laws also.

To: Lane3 who wrote (15569)	9/5/2001 12:42:57 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 59480

I think that one can survive on the minimum wage today I think it would be difficult. The cost of everything has gone up so much I don't see how it can be done. It used to be $500 got you a car that ran. If you were mechanical or knew a mechanic, $100 would. Rent, insurance, and utilities costs have similarly risen. I don't think the answer is to raise the minimum wage. It's just a benchmark for the union pay scales, anyway. I don't think there is a solution. We have to accept the reality that the social contract is null and void for those on the lower end of economic ladder.