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raymor · 10-04-2011, 10:50 PM

I saw the unintended negative effects of minimum wage when I was a fast food manager. When minimum wage increased by 20%, on the same day all major chains had to increase their prices by 25% percent to compensate for the increased wages, taxes, unemployment insurance, etc. At the same time, we had to be a liitle more careful about the hours that the youngest or least paid employes clocked. Overall, their paychecks increased by about 15%, while prices increased by 25%. Therefore their pay could but LESS of the product than before the increase. This is yet another example of well meaning politicians failing to think through how people will haver to responds to policy changes. So often they make policy based on the assumption that nobody will do anything in response.

For the MOST racist laws, though, how about the ones that are racist on their face? We still have laws saying that college admissions standards are at one level for one race, but another race can't get in unless they meet a higher standard. Similarly for much government hiring. There are rules that explicitly say people of one race must be discriminated against in government hiring. Those are the most racist. One can argue that is "the good kind of racism", but it's most certainly racism.

10-04-2011, 10:50 PM
raymor Confirmed User Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3,745	I saw the unintended negative effects of minimum wage when I was a fast food manager. When minimum wage increased by 20%, on the same day all major chains had to increase their prices by 25% percent to compensate for the increased wages, taxes, unemployment insurance, etc. At the same time, we had to be a liitle more careful about the hours that the youngest or least paid employes clocked. Overall, their paychecks increased by about 15%, while prices increased by 25%. Therefore their pay could but LESS of the product than before the increase. This is yet another example of well meaning politicians failing to think through how people will haver to responds to policy changes. So often they make policy based on the assumption that nobody will do anything in response. For the MOST racist laws, though, how about the ones that are racist on their face? We still have laws saying that college admissions standards are at one level for one race, but another race can't get in unless they meet a higher standard. Similarly for much government hiring. There are rules that explicitly say people of one race must be discriminated against in government hiring. Those are the most racist. One can argue that is "the good kind of racism", but it's most certainly racism. __________________ For historical display only. This information is not current: support@bettercgi.com ICQ 7208627 Strongbox - The next generation in site security Throttlebox - The next generation in bandwidth control Clonebox - Backup and disaster recovery on steroids