Conservatives chafe at government
intervention in things having to do with business. And seeing how certain
regulations increase the burden of paperwork on small businesses it's easy to
understand why.
So the new effort to raise the
minimum wage to $10.10 an hour has not gone down well with the small business
community. Those extra dollars are the difference between being in business and
being out of business.
But some
big employers,
particularly their lobbyists in Washington, have been up to a little talking
out of both sides of their mouthpieces. Or at least saying one thing and doing
another.
According to a new study reported
in the Wall Street Journal, raising the minimum wage to $10.10 would take 3.5
million people off the food stamp rolls and cut federal spending on the program
by $4.6 billion a year. But, the report goes on to say, many big employers rely
on federal programs to provide food assistance to their workers.
Basically, complaining about the
cost of food stamps, big government, and federal intervention on one hand and
then exploiting it with the other to pay less wages and pad their workers'
bottom line. And their company's.
So hey. The ultimate judge of all
things is happy; the stockholder.
But if U.S. businesses think they
got it bad, intervention wise, try Canada. Broadcast regulators there
reprimanded three erotic channels in Toronto for not showing the
government-required 35% of Canadian content.
Because you know, if you're going
to serve up porn, an industry rife with misuse and abuse of their workers, you
better make sure you take advantage of the appropriate percentage of local
people and don't just import it from around the world from less sophisticated and
less moral nations.
You know. Think global, exploit
local.
America, ya gotta love it.
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