Price Fixing Of Wages Hurts Workers
The same folks who are pushing minimum wage tax increases as economic development are now trying to make hay out of a bill that would push more women out of competitive jobs.
posted by Kentucky Progress @ 9/28/2006 05:57:00 PM
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You are trying to tie 3 things together which may or may not be related.
The fact is 9 Republican legislators believe that women do not deserve equal pay for equal work.
That is wrong!!
Here is another way of looking at it anon 6:37. A person (man or woman), negotiates with an employer for an hourly rate. There is an agreement between them. It goes as follows:
"You offer me X for every hour I work. I accept X."
Simple.
If you as an employee find X to be unacceptable, then don't accept the job. Again simple.
The employee is trying to get as much as possible, in theory. The employer is trying to pay as little as possible. Come to an agreement, and there it is.
Now, why do women get paid less? I don't know. Furthermore, I'm not sure I care. If they want to be paid as much or more than the guy next to her, then she should demand it. If she can't get it, she should take her skills elsewhere.
Three things? No, just one: bad economics. It must be great fun to scream for government intervention into wages, but takes a particular willingness to avoid all kinds of evidence that such does not provide the intended benefits. In fact, the best way to hurt poor people and women is to mandate their wages. I know that is not what you want.
why shouldn't women get equal wages... bad economics for who the ceo's that cant justify their salaries
You are absolutely correct, nkWiseOne and KY Progress. Employers are already burdened with having to pay minorities the same as white people or Jews and Mormons the same as Christians for fear of bringing the wrath of Democrat-supporting trial lawyers.
Until the day men start having babies and taking a federally mandated 90 day vacation everytime they squeeze one out, this legislation is unneccesary. You just can't depend on women like you can men for this specific reason and that is why they get paid more. They are actually working on the job longer, not running off at 5 oclock to get to soccer practice.
And Fed-up06, CEO's are hired in pretty much the same way that nkWiseOne outlined. If the board members, democratically elected by a companies shareholders, don't think they are worth it, they just find another CEO. It is because most CEOs, being Republican and hence not looking for a handout, do not sell themselves short, like the average pod who settles for a minimum wage job, that they make big piles of cash.
YEAH ROB YOU SOUND LIKE THE RED BARON NAZI...WELCOME TO THE REAL WORLD ROB...RUN TO YOUR GLASS HOUSE
Silly Liberal, Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen (aka the Red Baron) died in World War One, long before the rise of Adolph Hitler and his National Socialist Party. It was impossible for him to be a Nazi. Just because you hear a new word on TV doesn't mean you can just use it indiscriminately. Maybe you should take a history class in addition to an economics class.
Some of this reads like Fed up 06 might be a little racist and Kentucky Progress might not be aware of the civil rights act of 1964.
Anonymous 3:21, I'm all ears. Please tell me what I don't know about the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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