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Originally Posted by dabateman
Jack Kemp is about as relevant as Bob Dole... Zero. If you are an honest businessman, you have a responsibility to pay your workers a living wage. The minimum wage is not a living wage especially with the increasing economic turmoil.
The failure of business to self regulate has brought this on. When you get business to self regulate, then we won't need government to do it.
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As an employer you have a responsibility to keep your business open and your employees employed. If your expenses outweigh your income, then no one has a job. If you raise your prices, then it effects the poorest people the most. So you can raise wages and close your business or you can raise prices and your employees can pay more for the products you and thousands of other small businesses produce, pushing them more and more to buying everything from Wal-Mart, driving you out of business or if not buying at Wal-Mart, consuming the additional income by having to pay more for stuff. So much for small business and "the little guy".....
