Will they ever learn? The "acting governor" (thanks to the perfectly timed resignation of corrupt elected governor McGreevey) is proposing raising the minimum wage in Jersey. Cue the requisite sob stories. These stories are dripping in emotional calls for helping children and other tricks of the journalistic trade that anger me to no end. I'm beginning to hate journalists almost as much as I hate trial lawyers - at least the lawyers know they are scumbags and everyone hates them, so they aren't imbued with this sense of self-importance that journalists have.
Anyway, the arguments against a minimum wage are simple, and you're an idiot if you can't figure out why a minimum wage increase is a bad idea. If all I have to do to allow people like poor Ms. (or is it Mrs.? Who knows) Conley to make ends meet is mandate a wage on those mean ol' employers then why don't I make skyrocketing rents in Jersey cheaper by just naming a price? Why stop there? We don't want kids starving, so let's make food cheaper by legislating it. Oh, but then sooopermarkets can't pay their employees the minimum wage we just mandated. Crap, what do we do? Oh well, by this point the journalists don't care and we can bask in the adulation for our "compassion". There are so many holes in the argument for a minimum wage I want to drop it in the ocean. It's just another case of elected officials becoming the government fairy godmother and waving their magic price wand about.
I can't wait to leave this state and move back west. NJ government makes things expensive by overregulating (gas, property) and then proposes to fix things by regulating more (wages).
Sunday, January 09, 2005
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Heh heh, that reminds me of the old lady who swallowed the fly. I dunno why she swallowed that fly,
Perhaps she'll die. Then she swallowed a spider to capture the fly. Then she swallowed a bird (how obsurd) to catch the spider. Fly, spider, bird, cat, dog, goat, cow, horse. Now she's dead, of course.
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