Research? No. Evidence? Yes.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/05/business/...index.html

https://www.wired.com/story/why-amazon-r...imum-wage/

I'm sure I could go on if I cared to waste the time, but that should be all you need. Amazon and Walmart both lobbying congress to raise minimum wage? These guys are true humanitarians.

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(11-25-2020, 04:20 PM)NeptuneBeachBum Wrote:

(11-25-2020, 04:14 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: I don't know that we need minimum wage laws, but at the same time, I believe you can only trust the free market to the degree that's it's free. The government needs to use it's powers to ensure that corporations can't cooperate to oppress their labor market. That can't happen when they are working together.

That is exactly why you need labor laws... because free market capitalism has shown it will not behave fairly on its own.  It will invariably require a degree of regulation.  The argument is, and always will be, how much?  I don't think a minimum wage requirement is too much... even for small businesses to compete.  I am a small business owner and I am of the mindset that if you can't afford to pay your employees at least a minimum wage, your business would not be successful anyway.

I'm not opposed to labor laws, but I think politicians are saps. They are bought and paid for by lobbyists, and I don't trust any labor laws coming out of our Congress.

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