Replies to post #2204 on RANT & CHAT - No Politics (RANT-NP)

[ergo sum]

Trkyhntr

My point is that there does not seem to be any correlation between jobs and the minimum wage. Raising the minimum wage doesn't seem to reduce employment. During the 90s both welfare rolls and unemployment improved even though the minimum wage was increased. Those increases I might add were for the most part merely adjustments for inflation. I don't see any evidence that justifies your claims.

Part of me wants to ask you if you think we need a minimum wage? Should I be allowed to employ people with out paying them? Should I be able to employ children? I see this much more as a human rights issue. I don't see it as some "redistribution of wealth" at all.

Be well
Ergo Sum

[PMS Witch]

I wish I had an URL for this, or even a better memory. A British Member of Parliament (decades ago) enjoyed taking the floor and making his point with a little poetry.

What is a Commumist?

A Communist is a man who has yearnings
For equal division of unequal earnings.
Fool, or slacker, or drunkard he's willing
To fork over his copper and pocket a shilling.

Cheers, PW.