PoliticalChic
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So republicans would support a 15 per hour national minimum wage.
A. I don't speak for Republicans.
B. The post you linked to has nothing to do with minimum wage.
C. Minimum wage laws are aimed at hurting black folks, you know...what you do:
"FDR talked Congress into creating Social Security in 1935 and imposing the nation’s first comprehensive minimum-wage law in 1938. While to this day he gets a great deal of credit for these two measures from the general public, many economists have a different perspective. The minimum-wage law prices many of the inexperienced, the young, the unskilled, and the disadvantaged out of the labor market. (For example, the minimum-wage provisions passed as part of another act in 1933 threw an estimated 500,000 blacks out of work.)"
D. Obama's father claimed that 100% taxation would be just fine.
E. Today there are folks in Califorinia and New York who pay over 60% of their income in taxes.
- Who is to decide what is fair, and what is too much? Some religions suggest tithing, and government demands taxes.
- Joseph gathered very much grain: It seems it was customary for Pharaoh to take 10% of the grain in Egypt as a tax. Essentially, Joseph doubled the taxes over the next seven years (Genesis 41:34 mentions one-fifth, that is, 20%).
- That 20% figure appears again in the relationship of colonists to North America, and the English crown "....colonists were free to retain all the profits and fruits of their labor save for the crown's 20 percent share of any gold and silver discovered." "Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585-1828," by Walter A. McDougall, p.33
Everyone has the right to be stupid......but you abuse the privilege.