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last1standing

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Thu Dec-21-06 03:09 PM
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11. If you refuse to explain yourself more, this just becomes a flame bait thread.

To compare a minimum wage rise with the price of products coming from the far east is ludicrous, to say the least. Many of these countries use child enslavement and pay their victims pennies a day. China is even using prison labor. How do small, medium or even large businesses compete with that?

The only solution to this is to legislate and enforce Fair Trade Agreements. Unless a country is willing to pay decent wages and protect their environment, we should tax their products, heavily. Anything else is just working toward turning this country into a massive slum filled with "minimum wage" workers saving to buy a loaf of bread.

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