> Am 15 Aug 17  11:28:50 schrob BOB ACKLEY an GERHARD STRANGAR zum Thema 
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> BA> I know that.  But our professional politicians keep promising higher
> BA> wages (some are pushing for $15/hour minimum - about double what it is
> BA> now) and more jobs.  Of course they never follow through on the
promises.
> 
> Why aren't minimum wages considered to be communism?

Some people think they are.

> How can a country dictate the amount of money in your contract?

Not just the country, some states and some cities do that too. 
Interesting question, there's nothing in the US Constitution that allows
the government to do that - but that has never stopped or even slowed a
politician out pandering for votes.

> We got a law on minimum wages just a few years ago and it basically
came with
> lots of exceptions and ways of undermining it. And even the unions
don't like
> the idea of a minimum wage.

They do here, because they can bargain for ever higher wages.

The problem is that when the wage demanded to perform a job is higher
than what the job is worth to the employer, the employer eliminates the
job, by just not having it done, getting a machine to do it, or moving it
out of the country.  This has been going on since right after World War
II - seventy years - and the people here, mostly those of the left wing
persuasion, haven't yet accepted that fact.