>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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Anonymous2007-08-05 18:04 ID:Ts4stXyh
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"Tiny fraction of the rate"? There are less white collar criminals than blue collar criminals because there are less white collar criminals, if there were an equal number of white collar and blue collar convicts then it would be unusual, not the way it is. Unless you have statistics and multiple case studies which support that white collar criminals tend to get off lightly then you can't be taken seriously. Isolation and institutionalisation leads to madness, you don't need a psychologist to tell you that.
#41, any common reading of the financial news would reveal that there's a lot more white-collar crime happening than ever reaches court, much less jail. You're only indulging in "it is because it is" logic, which doesn't actually examine WHY something is. Most law enforcement is geared towards nabbing blue-collar crimes; unsurprisingly, that system fills the jails with blue-collar criminals.
I'm sure you know -- as such a savvy study in social trends -- that when financial criminals are ever addressed, settlements abound, and in that kind of "enforcement" environment, surely you've heard the phrase "... without admitting guilt". White-collar criminals largely either evade detection or they evade prosecution or they evade jail.
I wonder what the racial and social makeup of our jails would look like if we swapped the enforcement regimes? When some nigger holds up a liquor store, instead of being summarily convicted and jailed, he could instead show up to the prosecutor's office some years later (on his own recognizance), sign a "Memorandum of Understanding", whereby he may or may not admit to the material facts of the matter, but he still promises not to do it again ... and if he does (largely dependent upon being caught) then he'll face ... a FINE!
As for the banker who commits fraud in commercial lending under this change of enforcement? Well, the cops barge in, beat him, haul him to the floor and cuff him (sometimes not reading him his rights, but no one cares about that anyway), then drag him out and stick him in a cell for 2-4 weeks until the grand jury determines a crime has been committed (and the facts of the case are clear: yes, by his signature on the forms, he did commit fraud in commercial lending), and then after 4-8 more weeks (note: still in jail), he ends up in court and after deliberating for 15 minutes the jury finds him guilty as fuck. A few weeks later the judge (in clear disgust or bored resignation) sentences him to 8 years in medium security, where he can qualify for parole in 5.
Tell me again this system isn't fucking RIGGED 'GAINST DA NIG.