Re: Abolish Minimum Wage
Compassion comes from people, not government. It is not the governments job to set minimum wages or minimum standards of living. That is the work of caring people. By setting a minimum wage, the government is telling business how little to pay and restricting the free market forces that our economy is based upon. Abolish the "MINIMUM" and the gap between lowest paid wages and minimum "living wages" will naturally close. But most importantly, it the government influence OUT of a part of the economy that it has no business being in, in the first place. Minimum wage helps no-one.
Go back and read the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. The government has no business and no authority to interfere with the American free markets, yet they have instituted regulations and "Acts" that have saddled our economy with billions of dollars in needless costs each year. This is money that doesn't go to the government, the business or the employee. It is spent in the process of making business compliant with government regulation. Just look at what it costs to remain in compliance with IRS code!It costs a fortune for a corporation (even a small one) to pay their taxes. This is lunacy.
By setting minimum standard for starting salary, businesses do not have to pay more, so they don't. But if this regulation were removed and business had to pay a competitive wage for their respective industry, the wages would naturally increase. So those in favor of minimum wages legislation are really in favor of poverty, while waving a banner of "compassion." Don't you understand that success does NOT come from a government program or mandate?
Minimum wage is no different than Affirmative Action. (OK, you can me a racist now too!d
) Setting minimum standards is not the path to excellence. Setting minimum standards is how the old soviet union operated. It doesn't work. In free markets businesses succeed by being better than the competition. To do this they hire better people and pay more. But the beauty of free markets is that are many levels of competition, and other businesses in the same industry can compete with lower quality workers, product etc. with a lower price.
This is so dang simple, but I guess a true socialist will accept nothing that intrudes on their belief that mother government, with her entitlement programs and bureaucratic regulations is the key to individual success. Reading Mein Kampf, I see clearly that liberalism is the truest form of Fascism.
