Before the 2006 elections the Republicans linked an attempted permanent roll back of the estate tax with an increase in the minimum wage which meant that the Democrats would have to reject both or accept both. One Senator fumed, "This Republican plan was cynical, it was contemptible, and it was cowardly," Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., said.  Coming from Ted Kennedy that is laughable considering he never misses an opportunity to expand government into all areas and pile on more taxing power.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2006/8/4/164813.shtml?s=lh

Nancy Pelosi said before the election, "We believe in the marketplace," Pelosi said of Democrats, then drew a contrast with Republicans. "They have only rewarded wealth, not work. We must share the benefits of our wealth" beyond the privileged few,” she added.   Taken right from the Marxist Communist handbook of economics. If the people who create the wealth don’t hand it over to those whom the Pelosi’s of the world think should have it, then the government will take it from them in the name of fairness. If she truly believes in the market place, then why does she denigrate the creation of wealth which comes by working in the market place? In truth, she and her ilk are the ones who have piled taxes of all kinds on the income producers of the nation.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100600056.html

Democrat Senator Harry Reid is another one who blathers and blows to add to the idea that the Democrats are for the common man. He said according to his spokesman, Jim Manley, "It is unconscionable that members of congress would get yet another pay raise while the minimum wage has been stuck at $5.15 an hour for the last 10 years. Senator Reid intends to do all he can to ensure that Congress won't get a raise until working families do," ...   Unconscionable? It is unconscionable for politicians to continually raise their own wages but that isn’t the worst of the unconscionable conduct. One bit of the conduct that qualifies is wrongfully linking no Congressional raises until the minimum wage is raised. The unconscionable scenario is put in perspective when it is understood that Congress has the power to raise its wages according to the Constitution, but isn’t given the power to raise the minimum wage, much less create one, which began in 1937 under FDR.

 http://www.gopbloggers.org/mt/archives/004516.html

The minimum wage is a form of tyranny, in that if the business owner doesn’t pay the wage, the all mighty power of the federal government bureaucrats will descend like buzzards on day old road kill. Not only isn’t the minimum wage constitutional, it defies all economic sense that can be spoken given that a business owner pays what he can afford to pay. To force all qualifying businesses to pay the same wage ignores the economic reality of the relationship between business expenses, gross revenues, and profit margins.

Of course, when politicians such as Kennedy, Pelosi, and Barney Frank  have the un- tenable notion that wealth is wrong or vast amounts of wealth are wrong, then we are saddled with the ever expanding idea that government should control who has how much and who must divvy up when the government imposed limit is reached. That is pure socialism, fascism, and communism, and certainly not free market capitalism, wherein the market place principles of supply and demand determine wage structures. Sadly, the average citizen who knows little about economics has fallen for the Democrat bologna that business owners are keeping the lion’s share of the profits rather than sharing it with his or her employees.

(http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200612/POL20061221c.html)

What is ironic about all the minimum wage blather from the Democrats is the fact they don’t know diddly squat about business, then attempt to tell businesses how much to pay employees because they know that it won’t hurt business to pay more. Circle reasoning if ever there was circle reasoning.

In Sorting It Out, the more the Democrats blather, the more the people believe them, and the deeper we go into the morass of more government control over all facets of life.

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