GOVERNMENT CANNOT MANDATE JUSTICE
BY MANDATING A MINIMUM WAGE
If you use the same Obama Math that said you can add millions of non-paying people to the insurance rolls and give them every health care need under the sun while at the same time reducing the average family's insurance premiums by over $2,500 a year then you can also come to the conclusion that a government can just mandate a minimum wage to make everyone richer.
Except for one thing. Governments can print money so they can be irresponsible and make promises they cannot keep. Can't pay the bills? Print more money. However, restaurant owners do not have a printing press and cannot print money. Big difference.
If you are not living in a fantasy land then you may realize that a government mandating minimum wages is a violation of people's right to associate with one another. Why shouldn't people be able to come to an agreement for the price of services rendered? Why should the government be permitted to tell a private individual what they may or may not do with another individual so long as they are not hurting anyone else?
If you are not living in a fantasy land then you may realize that a government mandating minimum wages is a violation of people's right to associate with one another. Why shouldn't people be able to come to an agreement for the price of services rendered? Why should the government be permitted to tell a private individual what they may or may not do with another individual so long as they are not hurting anyone else?
If you believe that people are free then you must believe they have a right to associate with whomever they please without government interference. Mandating a minimum wage is government interference and anyone who supports that government interference is denying the liberty to associate to another human being ... and that infringes on the right of that other person's liberty.
The key is that the individual must have that right to associate or not associate with others. Having the government stepping in and using force to spell out what a relationship must look like and smell like is one reason this country was founded in the first place. Governments are made up of men (and women) and the men who make so called laws that are not founded on natural law and that are usually just whims of the majority at the time cannot be protecting the rights of other men. If they were protecting the rights of other men (and women) then these worse than useless "do-good" laws would never be created in the first place. They are merely distractions and platitudes used by ignorant politicians to sound altruistic and to get a sound bite in the media to win your heart and vote.
Do not vote with your heart. Vote with your mind. Politicians know you have a propensity to use your heart when you vote but your mind is the only faculty you have that you can use to determine what the true actions of the politician may be.
The only way you can protect your freedoms from the control of the state is to get politicians like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi out of office faster than Ted Kennedy can get out of an Oldsmobile with Mary Jo Kopechne. These useless politicians have been partying on your dime and destroying the character of this country for many many years and it is time we push them aside for politicians that will protect your rights instead of take them away from you.
The key is that the individual must have that right to associate or not associate with others. Having the government stepping in and using force to spell out what a relationship must look like and smell like is one reason this country was founded in the first place. Governments are made up of men (and women) and the men who make so called laws that are not founded on natural law and that are usually just whims of the majority at the time cannot be protecting the rights of other men. If they were protecting the rights of other men (and women) then these worse than useless "do-good" laws would never be created in the first place. They are merely distractions and platitudes used by ignorant politicians to sound altruistic and to get a sound bite in the media to win your heart and vote.
Do not vote with your heart. Vote with your mind. Politicians know you have a propensity to use your heart when you vote but your mind is the only faculty you have that you can use to determine what the true actions of the politician may be.
The only way you can protect your freedoms from the control of the state is to get politicians like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi out of office faster than Ted Kennedy can get out of an Oldsmobile with Mary Jo Kopechne. These useless politicians have been partying on your dime and destroying the character of this country for many many years and it is time we push them aside for politicians that will protect your rights instead of take them away from you.
The politicians that have been trying to divide and conquer you at the voting booth should take a lesson from Ronald Reagan. He said, "Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."
"It has been proved, by indisputable evidence, that power is not the grand principle of union among the parts of a very extensive empire; and that when this principle is pushed beyond the degree necessary for rendering justice between man and man, it debases the character of individuals, and renders them less secure in their persons and property. Civil liberty consists in the consciousness of that security, and is best guarded by political liberty, which is the share that every citizen has in the government. Accordingly all our accounts agree, that in those empires which are commonly called despotic, and which comprehend by far the greatest part of the world, the government is most fluctuating, and property least secure."
"It has been proved, by indisputable evidence, that power is not the grand principle of union among the parts of a very extensive empire; and that when this principle is pushed beyond the degree necessary for rendering justice between man and man, it debases the character of individuals, and renders them less secure in their persons and property. Civil liberty consists in the consciousness of that security, and is best guarded by political liberty, which is the share that every citizen has in the government. Accordingly all our accounts agree, that in those empires which are commonly called despotic, and which comprehend by far the greatest part of the world, the government is most fluctuating, and property least secure."
- Scholars have attributed the portion of the essay above by "Agrippa" to James Winthrop of Cambridge, MA and this is from the 11th Anti-Federalist Paper 11. "Agrippa" contributed essays to The Massachusetts Gazette from November 23, 1787 to February 5, 1788.
Click the link below to learn how a mandated minimum wage by the government is mandated poverty by the government ... and a rational explanation of why it will increase unemployment and create even more poverty.
http://mises.org/daily/6714/How-Minimum-Wage-Laws-Increase-Poverty
Click the link below to learn how a mandated minimum wage by the government is mandated poverty by the government ... and a rational explanation of why it will increase unemployment and create even more poverty.
http://mises.org/daily/6714/How-Minimum-Wage-Laws-Increase-Poverty
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