Word: minimum
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Moreover, in this triage of minimum-wage workers, who do you think will keep his job and who will lose it? Those likely to win out are the more desirable, educated workers--the young college student paying his way through school. Who will lose it? The less-educated, less-skilled, less-privileged minority kid struggling to get on the job ladder...
...theoretically, could we raise the pay of the minimum-wage worker without costing the job of his less-fortunate co-worker? Simple: with a direct government subsidy. Instead of ordering employers to give their workers an extra 90' an hour, the Treasury gives it. This approach would not cost the job of a single minimum-wage worker. And it would enrich the poorest workers with tax money taken from the nonpoor: middle-class and rich taxpayers...
...minimum-wage free lunch is a perfect example of the decadence of modern liberalism. In its heyday, liberalism didn't hide. The classic redistributionist programs of the New Deal and the Great Society--Social Security and Medicare--were open about the cost and about government's role: You pay the tax; government will deliver the goodies...
...minimum wage, another hoax, but marvelously sold. More hands-free compassion...
...cannot last. Not just because you cannot keep heaping burden after burden on business without killing it. But because you cannot keep hiding burden after burden from the electorate without insulting it. Yes, you can fool some of the people some of the time. The minimum-wage hike will undoubtedly pass. But hungry as the American people are for a free lunch, serve it often enough, and they will ask to see the check...