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What if the federal minimum wage disappears?

by: Lucy Edwards

Tue Jun 28, 2011 at 16:50:05 PM EDT
( - promoted by William Tucker)

Now that NH no longer sets its own minimum wage, what would happen if the federal minimum wage law were repealed?  We've all been upset that we no longer can raise our wage above the federal limit, but imagine if the law were repealed?  What do you think would happen to low wage workers?  And maybe higher wage workers as well, as the race to the bottom accelerates?
Lucy Edwards :: What if the federal minimum wage disappears?
We now have Republican presidential candidates coming to our state, including at least a couple who think repealing the minimum wage at the federal level would make wonderful economic sense and immediately create millions of jobs, even if they didn't pay enough to live on, that's a detail, especially if you are rich.

How many of us think the repeal of the minimum wage was a NH idea?  Raise your hands.  Like the rest of the current GOP agenda in NH, this one was part of the national GOP "soak the middle class and shower money on the rich" plan.  What they think they are going to do once they get rid of the middle class I am not quite sure, but it will be interesting (as in the Chinese curse, "may you live in interesting times").
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The Republican Party wants to do that - (4.00 / 3)
A majority of Republicans in the House and Senate have voted to set the national minimum wage to: $0.00.
Just the thing! (0.00 / 0)
A volunteer workforce.

And a step closer to repealing the 13th Amendment; the South will rise again!

They. Don't. Care.
We do.
Rinse, repeat.

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Were they going (0.00 / 0)
to pay the militia?  We could all sign up.

Or everyone will want to run for the NH House, because they will be making more than the rest of us.

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save your dixie cups ! n/t (4.00 / 1)


note to close readers: this might be sarcastic so think twice before reading to candidates for use in their attacks on each other
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No Min Wage is what GOPer/CONS want (0.00 / 0)
LESS REGULATION....NO UNIONS...NO MIN WAGE...RIGHT TO WORK--ALL GOPER'S DREAM STATE

TRANSLATION

WHEN YOU ARE READY TO WORK FOR 19TH CENTURY WAGES AND LAWS....... WE WILL GIVE YOU A JOB

BUT YOUR GONNA NEED 3 OF THEM

HOW MUCH MONEY DO THE GOPers WANT? (0.00 / 0)

ALL OF IT

America's first experiment with industrial agriculture had the benefit of (0.00 / 0)
free labor and, still, plantation owners went bankrupt as a matter of routine -- bankruptcies which accounted for the splitting up of laborers' families.  Considering that at present over 51% of adults are unmarried, one has to wonder if there's a connection between the evisceration of the work force and the foundering of the family unit.
That said, laws which mandate a particular behavior from individuals, as opposed to laws which prohibit injury and threaten punishment, are very difficult to enforce. Unless, of course, we start getting serious about our civic responsibility to enforce the law by complying with its strictures on a voluntary basis.  Some people do that automatically. Many people pay more than the suggested minimum.  It's the cheap-skates who are the problem.  Because, not only are they cheap and willing to cheat, but they want their anti-social behavior to be endorsed.

Adding insult to injury is not something we should put up with.

Triangulation is so handy.  It lets people be scum-bags on someone else's dime. A "hard choice" is when someone is to be hurt and nobody's to be blamed.

Expect the worst (0.00 / 0)

and they still exceed expectations.

Any one see Howard Dean on RM tonight?

He didn't mince words about the Koch Brothers. Called them bad people who hate the middle class.

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