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

From: Socialism is a Mental Disease (root_at_localhost.)
Date: 06/06/04


Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 07:36:37 GMT

On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 18:12:23 GMT, retrogrouch@comcast.net wrote:
>
>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.
>

The issue that I was addressing is that those employment numbers prove
nothing. But if you think increasing the minimum wage is such a good
idea, why not increase it to a grand an hour?

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percent of the people may take away the rights of the other
forty-nine." -- Thomas Jefferson


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