The Minimum Wage is Going Up in Ohio, AGAIN!
From The Dispatch:
Ohio’s minimum wage will rise to $7.00 per hour for nontipped employees on Jan. 1, under terms of a state constitutional amendment approved last year.
For tipped employees, the rate will be $3.50 per hour.
The wage applies to employers grossing $255,000 or more annually.
Here is the question that I’d love to ask Ted Strickland and the Ohio Democrats: “Since the minimum wage, when set above market equilibrium, by definition, creates unemployment, how many teenagers and unskilled workers is it fair to keep from finding employment in your quest for a statutory-created utopia?”
And my second question would be, “How many teenagers and unskilled workers should be kept from finding employment in the name of increasing the minimum wage so union thugs can renegotiate their contracts?”
I would refrain from mimicking the Dems’ insincere buffoonery with using children as stage props for the SCHIP debate, but I’d be tempted to say “WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN! Don’t dependent children from lower and middle class households deserve the chance for job experience and to earn extra spending money? How can Democrats turn their backs on the CHILDREN!!?” But maybe unlike an unnecessary entitlement like SCHIP, Democrats don’t want teens working, because then those children could grow up to be independent, hard-working adults, see how much money the government takes out of their income, and become lifelong Republicans.
Brian said,
Wrote on October 10, 2007 @ 3:21 pm
Matt;
While I understand your dislike for the socialistic leftward movement by the Ohio Democrats, and I am in agreement with you, this constitutional amendment demonstrates clearly how deficient Ohio voters are in the very understanding of freedom and liberty. Who are we to tell another private citizen what they must pay to a worker for a wage? We have no right; yet the citizenry of Ohio continues to impose tyrannical measures like this, and the smoking ban, on other citizens without any thought given to liberty.
In large measure the Ohio Democrat Party bears a large amount of responsibility for this because they continue to perpetrate this injustice; however blame lies with our education community that helped further this thought through failing to teach the meaning of liberty, instead taught the hopelessness of socialism; the Unions that helped sink our state’s industry through a similar mindset; and the Ohio Republican Party that has failed time and time again to address the injustice of socialism. But most importantly, the ignorant, uncaring, selfish voters of Ohio bear the most responsibility because they see nothing wrong with stealing from another’s wallet and wages, taking welfare when they could be working, filling bankruptcy when they should be saving and paying off their debt, and most of all, pointing the finger at everyone else for their problems while failing to look at themselves in the mirror.
This sort of injustice will only end when our general assembly resists populist and political payoffs, and starts to educate the general population of the litany of ills that are on the way if we do not turn this train around, rather than cowering in Columbus.
Joe C. said,
Wrote on October 10, 2007 @ 7:20 pm
Ohioans voted in favor of economic stagnation, this is just part of their wisdom. I can’t wait for it to get up to $8,$9,$10,$15,$20 because of the elevator and watch everyone squeal when unemployment and prices go up and businesses leave, but they just can’t figure out why.