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wormyguy
Junior Chimp
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Political Matrix
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« on: December 08, 2010, 12:52:31 PM » |
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Green states have minimum wages higher than federal, other colors don't.
As you can see, not one of the above-national states are in the highest quintile. 57% are in the lowest two quintiles.
Although I'm sure that's just a conspiracy to benefit the "wage-slave mega-corporations," like Wal-Mart, which doesn't have a single minimum wage worker on its payroll. (Congress generally keeps the minimum wage below market levels so that its marginal impact is not easily noticed).
If one's desire were for "economic justice," one would wish to increase food stamp etc. funding if the minimum wage were raised, as that would mean significantly more poors will find themselves out of a job. (Do you really think Wal-Mart finds its "greeters" so crucial that it wouldn't fire the lot of them if the government mandated they be paid, say, $12 an hour?)
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