Bachmann is Right About the Minimum Wage

Townhall.com ^ | July 4, 2011 | Star Parker

[org.whodat]

I do believe that working for free stuff is the same as the thousands that bust their asses in real educational programs to earn advanced degrees.

[RipSawyer]

That is the only approach that has a chance of getting through to the nonthinkers of the left. Tell them what the hell, if it really works let’s have a thousand dollar an hour minimum. Most will immediately respond that that is ridiculous, then you ask them what is ridiculous about it, they cannot respond without arguing against the basic concept of a minimum.

I use the same method against the fools who argue that we can balance the budget simply by raising taxes. If it works so well why don’t we levy a one hundred percent tax on all income above a hundred thousand a year.? They cannot argue against it without destroying their original position.

[all the best]

“Personally, I’m all for dropping minimum wage laws all together for anyone under 20 years old since they don’t bring skills or knowledge to a employer.”

And you have some sort of special knowledge as to what those over 20 bring to the table?! Just by virtue of their being over 20. OBVIOUSLY not enough to garner more than a government-mandated wage. And you know what that wage should be? What prices other than that of labor do you think Washington politicos should control, commissar?
You did nothing to refute my comment other than to insult by suggesting that I was on drugs.

[BfloGuy]

Once you accept the concept of an artificial minimum wage; you wet the stage for proposing a maximum wage.

You are right, sir! Well said. Once you've allowed that the government can set wages, then it's over. Sort of like iindividual insurance mandates.

[Popman]

Sorry but your post was idiotic

Minimum wage earners are not locked into lifetime Zombie like jobs They are starter jobs

[hinckley buzzard]

The real silent cost of the raise in the minimum wage is that every other wage in the scale above it gets ratcheted upward. Every employee gets more expensive, not just the entry level guy. Think about that if you're a small businessman in a labor intensive business like say a pizza shop.

[hinckley buzzard]

A lot of guys bailed out on Reagan when it suited them, so does that mean he wasn't qualified to be president after all? Maybe some of Bachmann's "staff" just couldn't take the heat so they got out of the kitchen.

[hinckley buzzard]

You are right, but let's face it--indoctrination by the whorehouse media is hard to dislodge. The very idea of being a "distinguished Congresswoman" in the last twelve years is almost an oxymoron, but that's the way the media whores talk, and it's what you hear day in and day out from them. Meaningless, but has face validity.

[WOBBLY BOB]

Thousands lose jobs due to higher federal minimum wage

http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2009/05/14/thousands-lose-jobs-due-to-higher-federal-minimum-wage/

StarKist laying off 600-800 in American Samoa

http://kdka.com/wireapnewsfnpa/StarKist.laying.off.2.1693384.html

Chicken of the Sea closed its cannery in American Samoa l, citing the minimum wage law.