Showing posts with label minimum wage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label minimum wage. Show all posts
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Help Stop Ohio's Sarah Palin!
The Huffington Post gets a little huffy when it comes to Jennifer Garrison.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
More issues with so called minimum wage laws
"Advocates of higher minimum wages are often motivated by the purest of concerns for the poor. However, the minimum wage has been described as a "maximum folly" by many economists for many years because it hurts precisely the people who most desperately need help. Self-styled friends of the poor are unrelenting in their advocacy of a higher minimum wage, but with friends like these, the poor do not need enemies."
To the right is a book written by two gentlemen from Southeastern Ohio about Unemployment and Government. This is a great book.
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Poverty "focus groups"
Government speak for pretending to care what you have to say.
Here's a recent story on this subject from the Pomeroy Daily Sentinel.
If Mr Strickland really wanted to reduce poverty in Ohio, he'd propose lowering our taxes.
See previous posts here and here about our outrageous taxes.
Another idea would be to eliminate the so called minimum wage. If people want to work for a lower wage, why should we keep them from doing that? Everyone knows that the so called minimum wage creates unemployment. It also forces employers to buy machines rather than employ people because the minimum wage law prices low skilled workers out of the job market.
Here's a recent story on this subject from the Pomeroy Daily Sentinel.
If Mr Strickland really wanted to reduce poverty in Ohio, he'd propose lowering our taxes.
See previous posts here and here about our outrageous taxes.
Another idea would be to eliminate the so called minimum wage. If people want to work for a lower wage, why should we keep them from doing that? Everyone knows that the so called minimum wage creates unemployment. It also forces employers to buy machines rather than employ people because the minimum wage law prices low skilled workers out of the job market.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Charlie Wilson does not understand economics
Too many comments on this one.
First he votes to raise the minimum wage. If he'd do a little reading, he'd understand this puts people out of work. If employers have to decide if it's more cost effective to buy a machine since they can't afford to hire workers, how does this help those this "raise" is supposed to help? Also, if stores raise their prices because the labor price goes up, who pays? Those that the bill was supposed to have helped. And on top of paying higher prices, now they are out of work.
Which brings me to the next point:
Now he votes to extend unemployment "benefits" (redistribution of wealth). He also voted to do this in May. So how does paying people not to work help our unemployment situation? We should be encouraging folks to work, not paying them not to.
Another dumb idea: Bailout the auto industry. We should let them make the decisions they have to to stay in business. Everyone knows they need to get rid of the greedy union thugs sucking them dry and making our automobiles less competitive than Honda, Nissan, Toyota, etc, who, by the way, do just fine building cars in the US. The only difference is, they are non-union. Giving Detroit taxpayer money would reward bad management and just prolong the inevitable. If they had to fix their business now, they might have a chance. Of course the union backed dems want to continue to receive their campaign contributions from the unions, hence their support of this bailout.
Lastly, Wilson's support of the deceptively labelled "Employee Free Choice Act". See previous post here.
Our Representative knows nothing about economics.................or he does know about economics and doesn't care, just wanting to receive union campaign checks. Either way, he needs to go.
First he votes to raise the minimum wage. If he'd do a little reading, he'd understand this puts people out of work. If employers have to decide if it's more cost effective to buy a machine since they can't afford to hire workers, how does this help those this "raise" is supposed to help? Also, if stores raise their prices because the labor price goes up, who pays? Those that the bill was supposed to have helped. And on top of paying higher prices, now they are out of work.
Which brings me to the next point:
Now he votes to extend unemployment "benefits" (redistribution of wealth). He also voted to do this in May. So how does paying people not to work help our unemployment situation? We should be encouraging folks to work, not paying them not to.
Another dumb idea: Bailout the auto industry. We should let them make the decisions they have to to stay in business. Everyone knows they need to get rid of the greedy union thugs sucking them dry and making our automobiles less competitive than Honda, Nissan, Toyota, etc, who, by the way, do just fine building cars in the US. The only difference is, they are non-union. Giving Detroit taxpayer money would reward bad management and just prolong the inevitable. If they had to fix their business now, they might have a chance. Of course the union backed dems want to continue to receive their campaign contributions from the unions, hence their support of this bailout.
Lastly, Wilson's support of the deceptively labelled "Employee Free Choice Act". See previous post here.
Our Representative knows nothing about economics.................or he does know about economics and doesn't care, just wanting to receive union campaign checks. Either way, he needs to go.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Subscribe To
Posts
All Comments
