Archive for the ‘Minimum Wage’ Category

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Three Step Proposal to Solve the ‘Immigration Problem’

October 23, 2006

Immigration has recently become a huge problem. Mexican immigrants are coming into this country and taking the jobs of Americans and living off of our welfare state!!!! Why should we as Americans have to pay to keep those damn illegals alive? Those are the arguments I always here when people are promoting the crack down on illegal immigration. There are so many things wrong with those statements. In order to show whats wrong with these arguments I have derived my own three step plan for fixing the ‘immigration problem.’

Step 1: End All Socialist Programs, Such as Welfare

I do not want to involuntarily pay to take care of anyone. Whether they are immigrants or native citizens I do not care. Voluntary charities can give money to whoever they want. I can give my money to who ever I want. However, the government has no right to take my money and give to to who they deem needs it. That is Socialism. Are we not supposed to live in a Capitalistic Society?

Step 2: End the Minimum Wage

If you end the minimum wage it would not be as easy for illegal immigrants to undercut the American workers. With the minimum wage gone, the American workers would be able to work for a lower amount

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October 18, 2006
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The Minimum Wage: A Quick and Easy Lesson in Economics

October 17, 2006

The minimum wage is a hot button issue in todays political climate, especially with the November elections just around the corner. Some candidates want to raise it to a ‘living wage’ and some think it is fine where it is. This issue hits close to home, in fact, because a law was recently passed in Pennsylvania to raise the minimum wage. The point of this article, however, is to pose an alternative and more logical solution. Abolish the minimum wage.

What happens when you need to pay people more to make a product or provide service? The price of that product or service increases. An easy way to see this is to imagine what would happen if the minimum wage were raised to $100 per hour. At first this might seem like a good idea, but take a closer look. If I own a record store and I have to pay an employee $100 an hour to work there my CDs will raise in price to an amount probably close to $300. In this case you still have to work three hours to buy a CD. Things just become more expensive.

The minimum wage is also a direct violation of our rights as employees and employers. If I, at my record store, want to pay someone $2 an hour to sweep my parking lot I should be allowed to, as long as the other person agrees to it. If you are doing a job that is worth $5.15 an hour then you will get paid that much. If you think that you are being under paid then find somewhere to work where they pay you better. That is your right.

The only entity that is helped by a minimum wage is the government. The propaganda behind it is almost ingenious. They tell the poor and middle class that the minimum wage will be beneficial. They tell us we will make more money and that we will become more wealthy, which is only a half truth. We do start to make more money, but we absolutely do not become more wealthy. We now have to pay more for goods and pay more money to the government in taxes.

The minimum wage is a free-market nightmare and needs to be stopped. If we abolished the minimum wage and returned to the gold standard this countries economy would be in a lot better shape. These ideas, however, would be detrimental to the government so I doubt we will see them implemented anytime soon.