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#71
07-28-2006, 10:53 AM
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Re: City of Chicago Mandates a Living Wage for workers.
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that is, focus on skill and job training and other pro-business and pro-people policies. [/ QUOTE ] It's in place and we call it public school. How do you like the results of government control? 
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#72
07-28-2006, 06:49 PM
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Re: City of Chicago Mandates a Living Wage for workers.
In related news, Wal-Mart today sold all of it's stores in Germany at a loss. The company stated operating costs, and therefore prices, were too high to maintain thier ROI goals.
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#73
07-28-2006, 07:35 PM
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Re: City of Chicago Mandates a Living Wage for workers.
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In related news, Wal-Mart today sold all of it's stores in Germany at a loss. The company stated operating costs, and therefore prices, were too high to maintain thier ROI goals. [/ QUOTE ] Gee...I wonder if they will shift their focus to Fa Fa Fa France.
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#74
07-28-2006, 07:51 PM
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Re: City of Chicago Mandates a Living Wage for workers.
If a local government (as opposed to the federal government) elects councilmembers who choose to enact a minimum/living wage, then in fact that's a conservative result. The government closest to the people enacts the policies they want to. If that puts that city at an economic disadvantage, then people will move/take jobs at the city down the road. Surely the opponents of the minimum/living wage aren't saying that local governments should lack the power to enact the policies they see fit, are they? That'd be big government that they purportedly find anathema.
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#75
07-28-2006, 07:56 PM
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Re: City of Chicago Mandates a Living Wage for workers.
I think the anti-min wage folks here are arguing that it's a bad idea to implement in the first place.
Of course, some of the more libertarian here could say that it's none of the local government's business what wage people would voluntarily contract for in the first place and any regulation of same is immoral.
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#76
07-28-2006, 07:58 PM
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Re: City of Chicago Mandates a Living Wage for workers.
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If a local government (as opposed to the federal government) elects councilmembers who choose to enact a minimum/living wage, then in fact that's a conservative result. The government closest to the people enacts the policies they want to. If that puts that city at an economic disadvantage, then people will move/take jobs at the city down the road. Surely the opponents of the minimum/living wage aren't saying that local governments should lack the power to enact the policies they see fit, are they? That'd be big government that they purportedly find anathema. [/ QUOTE ] This is a more interesting issue in the context of localities that are enacting their own anti-illegal immigration laws. Minimum wage already has a history of not being the exclusive domain of the Federal government, immigration hasnt.
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#77
07-29-2006, 12:06 AM
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Re: City of Chicago Mandates a Living Wage for workers.
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If a local government (as opposed to the federal government) elects councilmembers who choose to enact a minimum/living wage, then in fact that's a conservative result. The government closest to the people enacts the policies they want to. If that puts that city at an economic disadvantage, then people will move/take jobs at the city down the road. Surely the opponents of the minimum/living wage aren't saying that local governments should lack the power to enact the policies they see fit, are they? That'd be big government that they purportedly find anathema. [/ QUOTE ] Huh? If forcible intervention is bad for a "big" government, how does it magically become "good" for a "small" one? What size government is the cutoff between big and small? How local is "local"?
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