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   From: Intelligent@savetheworldmsn.com   
      
   Underemployment Masks True Unemployment   
      
   If raising the minimum wage *did* increase unemployment, it would merely be   
   showing us the *true* unemployment rate.   
      
      
      
   A State Option For The Minimum Wage Will Never Be!   
      
   The Federal Government needs to take charge.   
      
   The CITY of Birmingham, Alabama, RAISED the minimum wage, but in response, the   
   STATE of Alabama, passed legislation stating the minimum wage must be the same   
   everywhere in the State, which is ZERO.   
      
   Alabama only has a minimum wage because of the Federal minimum wage.   
      
   Salaries lag inflation.   
      
      
      
   If Everyone Had Equal Consumption, Libertarian Economics Might Work   
      
   It still might be inadvisable, you should just be able to use the park, or   
   sidewalk, or road, and not pay.  There are extreme benefits to communalism.   
      
   It's like, farmers need to be able to water all day in 100 degree heat.  That's   
   the way work gets done.  They don't need to worry about paying.  Nor do people   
   need to worry about paying to use roads or parks.  We should own them as the   
   people.  Likewise we need to put in the water.  That's the way work gets   
   done.  It   
   would only cost several billion dollars out of a several thousand billion   
   dollar   
   Federal Budget.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)