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   On Sun, 16 May 2021 10:41:56 -0400, Ted    
   scrawled in blood:   
      
   >On Sun, 16 May 2021 07:50:19 -0500, Don Kresch    
   >wrote:   
   >> On Sat, 15 May 2021 21:44:38 -0400, Ted    
   >> scrawled in blood:   
   >   
   >   
   >> >On Sat, 15 May 2021 19:11:25 -0500, Don Kresch    
   >> >wrote:   
   >> >> On Sat, 15 May 2021 20:08:27 -0400, Ted    
   >> >> scrawled in blood:   
   >> >   
   >> >   
   >> >> >On Sat, 15 May 2021 01:44:53 -0700, Intelligent Party   
   >> >> > wrote:   
   >> >> >> This coincides with Trump's notion of 65% per capita GDP, of   
   >> >each   
   >> >> >of the 3,000   
   >> >> >> counties.   
   >> >> >   
   >> >> >   
   >> >> >Biden and most elected Democrats will do   
   >> >> >whatever they can to avoid having to raise the minimum wage,   
   >while   
   >> >> >just pretending it's something they want to do. The only   
   >elected   
   >> >> >politicians who really do want to raise it are centrists like   
   >> >Bernie   
   >> >> >and AOC, but they're in the minority.   
   >> >   
   >> >   
   >> >> 	Minimum wage laws are racist at their   
   >> >> core.   
   >> >   
   >> >How so?   
   >   
   >   
   >> 	They are designed to price out lower-skilled/lower-cost (read:   
   >> minority) labor in favor of whites. In fact: that was the entire   
   >basis   
   >> of Davis-Bacon in the US.   
   >   
      
   >A silly argument, actually.   
      
   	That's the reasoning of the people who wanted such laws in   
   place. They wanted to protect Good White Men's Jobs. But you don't   
   have to take my word for it:   
      
   https://mises.org/wire/racist-history-minimum-wage-laws   
      
   Don   
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