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flstf · 07-25-2008, 01:25 PM

If the government is going to control wages by enforcing a minimum wage rate I wonder why they set the number below the poverty level. Why not make the minimum wage something that people can live on like $15 an hour or so and since we are in the wage control business why not set the maximum wage as well? Maybe something like the highest paid person in a company cannot make more than 100 times the lowest. Executives would be scrambling to raise the lowest wages.

I also wonder why Arnold decided to balance the budget by lowering the wages of the lowest paid workers instead of lowering the wages of the highest paid?

07-25-2008, 01:25 PM	#32 (permalink)
flstf Easy Rider Location: Moscow on the Ohio	If the government is going to control wages by enforcing a minimum wage rate I wonder why they set the number below the poverty level. Why not make the minimum wage something that people can live on like $15 an hour or so and since we are in the wage control business why not set the maximum wage as well? Maybe something like the highest paid person in a company cannot make more than 100 times the lowest. Executives would be scrambling to raise the lowest wages. I also wonder why Arnold decided to balance the budget by lowering the wages of the lowest paid workers instead of lowering the wages of the highest paid? Last edited by flstf; 07-25-2008 at 01:27 PM..