#wage

Unfortunately, the real minimum wage is always zero, regardless of the laws, and that is the wage that many workers receive in the wake of the creation or escalation of a government-mandated minimum wage, because they lose their jobs or fail to find jobs when they enter the labor force. Making it illegal to pay less than a given amount does not make a worker’s productivity worth that amount—and, if it is not, that worker is unlikely to be employed. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#jobs #minimum-wage #economy

The minimum wage is the black teenage unemployment act. It is the guaranteed way of holding the poor, the minorities and the disenfranchised out of the mainstream is if you price their original services too high. ↗

— Arthur Laffer

#black #disenfranchised #guaranteed #high #holding

The theoretically unrestricted right to develop power, to wage war against other states, is antisocial and is doubly dangerous, because the state as a mass entity represents a low moral and intellectual level. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#antisocial #because #dangerous #develop #doubly

Unionization, as opposed to communism, presupposes the relation of employment; it is based upon the wage system and it recognizes fully and unreservedly the institution of private property and the right to investment profit. ↗

— John L. Lewis

#communism #employment #fully #institution #investment

If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#american consumer #average #average american #becomes #cafta

The conclusion that many uniformed military came away from Vietnam with was that political interference, dominance of strategy and even tactics were a very bad way to conduct a war, and that indeed, if that was going to be our practice, that we shouldn't wage conflict again. ↗

— Robert McFarlane

#away #bad #came #conclusion #conduct

The administration is using the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to cut the wages of people desperately trying to rebuild their lives and their communities. ↗

— George Miller

#communities #cut #desperately #devastation #hurricane

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#just #only #provocation #revenge #those

The wages of pedantry is pain. ↗

— Carroll O'Connor

#pedantry #wages

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#call #care #dealing #education #extremely