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...serves up a foot-long chili dog at Town Pump, a Little Rock suds-and-sandwich shop. "It is sucking. And we need some change." That kind of attitude puts Hutchinson in a bind. Pryor notes, for instance, that the Republican has repeatedly voted against raising the minimum wage. Hutchinson counters that expanding the earned-income tax credit would be a better way to help the working poor, but he acknowledges that it's a complex argument: "Voters don't want to hear an economics lesson." If he can't find a better way to explain...
...economy going." Perhaps. But for now the government wants the Dutch to realize they have for too long been living beyond their means. Tensions within the coalition are as likely to surface over the new austerity budget as over the immigration issue. The government wants to throttle back wage hikes even as the cost of living rises. Lean years are usually good for populist parties - as long as they're not in power. But the LPF has already seen its support crumble now that it has embarked on the parlous business of coalition government. The challenge...
...cranky conservative: This whole living wage thing is just ridiculous. You’re taking away people’s incentive to learn in hopes of earning a higher wage, introducing inefficiency in the labor market, and increasing long-run unemployment...
...What are you talking about? Look, read this study that shows living wage ordinances don’t raise unemployment even when implemented across entire municipalities. Besides, what do you know about morality if you don’t think people are entitled to a basic standard of living...
...conservative feels his liberal opponent is fudging the numbers (“the study you cite was a load of malarkey!”) and the liberal feels the conservative is dissembling about his true motivations (“come on, why are you really opposed to a living wage?”) . All too often, we are deaf to one another...