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I would be okay with no minimum wage if we also had a free market in housing and real estate.
Conservatives are unwilling to allow the latter, and I maintain that a minimum wage is an unfortunate but necessary price of an unfree housing market.
If an employer is free to pay say $2 per hour, a landlord or developer should also be free to provide housing affordable to the worker earning $2 per hour.
I'd love to hear objections that do not entail class warfare.
it's not the conservatives that vote for big government.
conservatives are usually closer to libertarian, which means that they want LESS regulation in housing.
they sure as heck don't want this ridiculous money printing-which brings inflation, which is making the poor struggle even more than they did before. look to the liberals for the money printing/middle class destruction sector.
1) This was in a college town, huge surplus of labor.
2) Minimum lot size requirements. I rented a cottage once and tried to buy it when the owners moved but the lot could not be legally split so my only options were to buy two houses (unaffordable) or none.
Note that this is NOT the usual 'health and safety' issue commonly raised, as the cottage was legal as a stand-alone rental but not as a stand-alone sale or purchase.
Then why didn't you move to a town with a better job market? Why didn't you study new skills to make yourself more attractive to employers?
Even several right-wing economists have been forced to acknowledge that there is no evidence that raising the minimum wage raises unemployment rates. It's just yet another article of faith on the right, kind of like how cutting marginal rates on the wealthy increases economic growth.
it's not the conservatives that vote for big government.
conservatives are usually closer to libertarian, which means that they want LESS regulation in housing.
they sure as heck don't want this ridiculous money printing-which brings inflation, which is making the poor struggle even more than they did before. look to the liberals for the money printing/middle class destruction sector.
who do you think is PUSHING inflation?
Why did conservatives get all paranoid about 9/11 and let the Patriot Act and the TSA to be formed with no contest?
1) This was in a college town, huge surplus of labor.
2) Minimum lot size requirements. I rented a cottage once and tried to buy it when the owners moved but the lot could not be legally split so my only options were to buy two houses (unaffordable) or none.
Note that this is NOT the usual 'health and safety' issue commonly raised, as the cottage was legal as a stand-alone rental but not as a stand-alone sale or purchase.
Turn it into a multi-unit home, or a single family home with shared walls. Utilizing townhouses and condos are how you should address that.
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