So, the minimum wage in the United States is set to go up Friday. Not a slight increase, but a sharp 70-cent increase to $7.25. For Missouri, it's just 20-cents more.
Are our politicians and burocrats nuts?!? In a time when the economy is struggling to find its way out of a government enduced recession (come on, lets just call it what it really is), government continues to saddle business with greater and greater expenses. Those expenses will very quickly be passed onto the consumer in the form of increased retail costs.
Sure, we all want folks to make a good wage, but government intervention into the private and business sectors has never gone well.
So, on Friday, the lowest wage will spike. Already, business owners have made adjustments by hiring fewer summer workers. The next step can only be the elimination of positions.
This is going on as new estimates say that the federal bailout could end up costing nearly $24 trillion dollars.
It's time for the American people to say "ENOUGH" with government intervention into our lives. Government has never been good at managing anything. Forcing wage increases, health care mandates or anything else in the name of fairness isn't fair. It's socialism.
What is fair? Allowing business owners to decide what a job and a worker is worth. Allowing workers to decide for themselves whether a job offer and it's benefits (or lack of) is worth their labor.
Fairness is not equality, and should never be treated as such.
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