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If you think instead of the true cost of minimum wage labor you will immediately recognize that that must include not only food, clothing and shelter, but also medical and dental care, transportation and communication. There is no way around that. As an employer you'll likely not hire a sickly...

I would like to suggest that you have this quite wrong with regard to a sizable fraction of the population. That fraction, I think, like you, understands full well why Trump won the White House. They understand the sympathies and frustrations of his core supporters that will stick with him no...

And we are waiting for a one acre one vote decision by the Court. Since we now have Gorman seated, all we would need is one more (perhaps Ginsberg will oblige) to get there.

Perhaps it would have been prudent to wait until Mid November 2018 to hit"Post Reply".

I'm going to suggest that the immigrants may be justified in not knowing that.

Three cheers!

I don't know where these Ideas comes from. If I say I am exasperated with the Republicans, it doesn't mean I am enamored with democrats. If I quote Trump saying "We love the uneducated" it doesn't mean I "dislike the uneducated."

I respect your opinion but at the same time I think it is in denial of reality and where we are headed. And as I have said, even those who are not cut out to be engineers or "knowledge workers" can be accommodated . We don't need to fight change to do that.

"We love the uneducated" -- Donald J. Trump So why is it that Republicans so love the uneducated? I suppose it is because the uneducated largely man their sweatshops, and in turn vote for their masters. It's a profitable lose-win relationship. What the U.S. desperately needs is better...

I hardly think wanting to preserve or bring back minimum wage manufacturing jobs is the right direction for the U.S. Quite the opposite. We can accommodate most of those who are not skilled with job tasks that are not easily moved off shore. We must expand the size of our skilled work force...

Let us not be so naive to believe that the economists quoted don't understand the full ramifications. They're responding to all the absurd and misguided, popular nonsense that raising the minimum won't accomplish anything other then putting teenagers out of work because everything will just...

I have pointed out several times in other ET Forums why a rise to a $15/hr would amount to a very small increase in the price (in almost all cases) of the finished product. It is nice to see my calculations backed by those of a real economist. So thank you for posting that. We also have direct...

Trump has said "we love he uneducated". It is the uneducated that would believe a ridiculous claim that millions of non-citizens illegally voted. Trump has behaved in a way that suggests he himself is uneducated or else a con artist. Let's give him the benefit of a doubt and assume it is the...

No one, to the best of my knowledge, has ever claimed that no non-citizen voted in the last election. But it is prima facie unreasonable to claim that millions of non-citizens voted without evidence to support that claim, and in the face of extensive evidence from several studies that have...

from bloomberg News: Forget Caesar. Shakespeare Has Another Role for Trump. The playwright's relevance today can be a little disconcerting. by Tyler Cowen June 20, 2017, 10:07 AM CDT A leader with more gravitas. Photographer: Bryan R. Smith/AFP/Getty Images Are we living in a Shakespearean...

photo Bloomberg News, 6/22/17.

??? Apparently you don't live on the same planet as everyone else.

It's only because there were millions of Mexican rapists voting illegally. Once we build "the Wall," anarcho-capitalists will win all future elections. The foolproof way to protect "American values" is to make everyone over 21 be subjected to an MRI brain scan before than can get a voter I.D...

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There is a serious accountability problem pervading our criminal justice system, and the lower one goes in the system the worse the level of competence one encounters and the worse the problem of accountability becomes. Once you are down to the level of the cop on the beat, the jailer and jail...