Does Karen Handel Really Oppose Livable Wages? Come on.

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From libertarian Michael A. LaFerrara:

This is a classic statist mis-framing of the issue—and Handel apparently got trapped by it.

In answer to the question, “Do you support a livable wage,” who would have any reason to say no? Every responsible parent seeks to get her child a good education, instill a good work ethic and good character, send her child to college or trade school, etc., so her child can gain marketable skills and work habits in order to earn a good, self-supporting living as an adult. Adults make themselves more valuable to employers over time by adding to their skills, experience, and so forth. That’s how adults earn raises and advance. Who in their right mind would be against that? Certainly, not Karen Handel.

The issue is, should government force employers to pay every employee what it deems to be a “livable wage,” whether the employer judges the wage economically justified or not and even if the employee agrees to work for a lower wage? The obvious, moral answer is no.

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3 thoughts on “Does Karen Handel Really Oppose Livable Wages? Come on.”

  1. Dude complains that a politician changes the ‘framing’ of a question asked of him, through a blogpost ‘reframing’ the question himself.

    The question was about a minimum wage increase, not the merit or morality of the general concept of the minimum wage. Yet Mr. LaFerrara seems to think it was/should have been. The Democrat threw out the bait and the Republican took it. Ms. Handel could have said ‘I do not support a minimum wage increase’, but she went with Mr. Ossoff’s wording. Her mistake. Waaaaah, it’s not fair she took the bait and oh by the way it’s also not fair that We The People tell these poor, unfortunate companies not to pay us dirt.

  2. Yes, businesses should pay the full cost of their labor. That includes paying them sufficiently so that they do not qualify or need public assistance. We, the public, should not have to subsidize businesses. They should pay their own way.

  3. History shows we either have “government imposing compensation standards by force” or we have child labor, sweatshops and slavery.

    Nothing wrong with corporations imposing poverty on workers, is there? “The obvious, moral answer is, no.”

    Like “compassionate authoritarians”, “Libertarian morals” is an oxymoron.

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