Re: RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE TO $120 AN HOUR!!

retrogrouch_at_comcast.net
Date: 06/05/04 

Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 18:12:23 GMT

On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 17:54:38 GMT, Socialism is a Mental Disease
<root@localhost.> wrote:

>On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 15:46:49 GMT, retrogrouch@comcast.net wrote:
>>
>>>As civilized as it is, the consequence of that is higher unemployment.
>>
>>Except that study after study shows that canard to be a lie.
>>
>>The last time the US federal minimum wage was raised was in 1997
>>unemployment was about 5.1 in continued falling to 3.9 without a
>>hiccup over the next three years.
>>
>>1997 5.3 5.2 5.2 5.1 4.9 5.0 4.9 4.8 4.9 4.7 4.6 4.7
>>1998 4.6 4.6 4.7 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.6 4.5 4.4 4.4
>>1999 4.3 4.4 4.2 4.3 4.2 4.3 4.3 4.2 4.2 4.1 4.1 4.0
>>2000 4.0 4.1 4.0 3.8 4.0 4.0 4.0 4.1 4.0 3.9 3.9 3.9
>>
>
>Every knowledgeable person knows that to study the changes in one
>variable, all the other must be kept constant. I guess your public
>education is showing here.

You'd rather make baseless assertions over and over again as absolute
and ignore any evidence to the contrary.

We've got you figured out.

You have no evidence that minimum wages lead invariably to higher
unemployment. None. You have assumptions. Nothing else.

So don't speak to me of "thinking people", variables and other
mechanisms to avoid actually addressing the issue.

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