On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:28:25 -0400, Jack wrote:
It's why minimum wage laws are asinine, unneeded and counter productive.
They, like corporate taxes, are a political hoax, perpetuated on a
dimwitted public.

As usual, you're the dimwit here. You don't have any idea you're
talking about. One reason why many unions proliferated in the first
place was because the average worker was being taken advantage of by
business owners. Admittedly, many unions these days take advantage of
businesses, but they're on the way out. The pendulum has swung in the
opposite direction.

History, especially US employee history, is absolutely rife with
examples of companies taking advantage of their workers. The fact is,
there's any number of people who will take advantage of others if the
option presents itself and businesses are no exception.

Those 'minimum wage laws' that you put down are in place to prevent
taking advantage of workers.