>Minimum wage: The proper minimum wage is "zero". Anything more causes false pressures on the market which hurt business and unskilled workers trying to enter the job market. No one would accept or continue in a job which pays less than they are willing to work for. The market will self-correct if left alone.
How can a position be so naive? This is the 2008 Libertarian party candidate's position on minimum wage. Hay guys shall we open some sweatshots in Amerikkka?
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Anonymous2007-07-29 16:47 ID:dQvGJjMb
>but I believe excluding sweatshops from the US so they all exist in illegal immigrant camps, Mexico and Vietnam is worse because it is uneconomical to have to transport something that could be manufactured at home and because it shields us from the truth.
>At least in America these workers will have free speech and can form unions instead of having their face beaten into the soil with the butt of an a47 as occurs in South Vietnam
You fail to realize one thing: Sweatshops are not magically "excluded" from the US due to some fairy dust. The REASON why there are no longer sweatshops in the US is precisely BECAUSE in America the workers got free speech and formed unions and such. You can't put sweatshops back into the US while it still exists as it is today. All you can do to equalize the state of the world is give the people in Vietnam the ability to rise up against their oppressors as well to demand fair working conditions, not to drag the US back down into sweatshopland.