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  1. dreamdancer
    the argentinians learned some lessons as well... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_war#French_Algeria stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  2. dreamdancer
    i like it. you think like a master (but you do appear to have conceded the necessity of a minimum wage) ... stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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    it should be doubled in real terms (but done over several years so the economy has time to adjust as it increases). this would get it back to its historical value. stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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    you've provided no evidence that increasing the minimum wages leads to fewer people having jobs. pizza outlets and wal-mart are going to move offshore? are you serious? not sure that landscaping companies should set the countries economic policy. do they have a big lobby? i believe that is is illegal not to pay any labour - local, or migrant, below the minimum wage. stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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    another angle on the estate tax... http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/04/05/black_wealth/ stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  6. dreamdancer
    Ya know that's not in the Bible, don't you? Ben Franklin said it. Nothing against hard work and benefiting from it, but Jesus was more into helping the poor and homeless. Wendy W. by voluntary charity and tithing, not by coercion isn't a tithe just another name for a tax? stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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    http://pgt.liebertpub.com/pgt/articles/mt_rushmore_and_a_history.htm stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  8. dreamdancer
    'fairness' is such a basic concept that even monkeys can understand it... http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12913-envious-monkeys-can-spot-a-fair-deal.html stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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    it's been around a long time (but only a fraction of the time that barter has) and is one of, if not the most, powerful tools we have ever created - alongside language and mathematics (money could be considered a synthesis of the two). we now use a strange form called 'credit' money. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money#History_of_money stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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    that makes no sense. as smith says... http://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_499.shtml stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  11. dreamdancer
    it is what the minimum wage should be. there is already a national structure to work it out and implement it (the same as there is to set interest rates, another key economic variable). the economic figures say that it should be put back to the relative value it had in 1968. stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  12. dreamdancer
    that's not what the economic figures say... http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0829-08.htm stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  13. dreamdancer
    you sound as if you know what you're talking about
  14. dreamdancer
    tricky stuff airspace... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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    the wankers are probably the safest of them - it's the ones who can't handle that simple act and reach out to their 'flock' instead stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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    another brilliant business scheme... http://www.alternet.org/rights/131118/jail_time_for_a_%2414_bounced_check_how_private_debt_collectors_cash_in_posing_as_the_government/ stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  17. dreamdancer
    You forgot to mention 52 weeks each year, every year. Don't forget that. (I support the estate tax, but I'm fully aware of how difficult life on a farm is.) uphill, both ways, in a snow storm with one pair of shoes shared between all 7 kids You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t' mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi' his belt. this is just terrible! (but at least you were paid sixpence a week
  18. dreamdancer
    That will only work if we can convince more people to die immediately. Okay for long term, though. statistically, people are dying all the time - we don't have to speed up the process
  19. dreamdancer
    then you need to read again... http://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_499.shtml stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  20. dreamdancer
    this isn't a moral debate (you appear to think that everyone working on minimum wage should be sterilized). this is an economic debate. you haven't answered my question about whether government benefits will decrease with an increase in the minimum wage? and remember all those with family dependants didn't necessarily 'start' them stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  21. dreamdancer
    we're not disagreeing that there should be different pay rates for different workers - just that the minimum wage should be increased to a 'fair' level have you put any thought into the macro economic results i outline in my op? stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
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    now all we've got to do is join the euro
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    it seems mr smith had a much purer vision of the freemarket than the corporate abomination currently presented as the only possible alternative... http://www.onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_499.shtml stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding
  24. dreamdancer
    rather than increasing the sales tax a fairer way to raise revenue would be to increase the estate tax
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    that's more than a year's labour at minimum wage! (these bankers take a lot of supporting) stay away from moving propellers - they bite blue skies from thai sky adventures good solid response-provoking keyboarding