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If GOP Got All Three Branches They Would Pass Maximum Wage Laws For Workers. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Jan 2014 OP
They've shown us exactly what they'll do. I don't think this is the best summation of it, though. freshwest Jan 2014 #1
It's like I say, there are two types of republican voters: Salviati Jan 2014 #2
Nah, they would just get rid of minimum wage louis-t Jan 2014 #3
Perhaps, but they'd also turn back time: after about six months, it would be 1789 or 1917 Alamuti Lotus Jan 2014 #4

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
1. They've shown us exactly what they'll do. I don't think this is the best summation of it, though.
Thu Jan 30, 2014, 06:23 PM
Jan 2014
Anyone who isn't set up for life that votes for them is a damned fool, I don't care what kind of CT or social mantra they sell.

louis-t

(23,267 posts)
3. Nah, they would just get rid of minimum wage
Thu Jan 30, 2014, 07:33 PM
Jan 2014

and tell workers what a favor they were doing them. Employers would take it from there.

 

Alamuti Lotus

(3,093 posts)
4. Perhaps, but they'd also turn back time: after about six months, it would be 1789 or 1917
Thu Jan 30, 2014, 07:38 PM
Jan 2014

An absolutely unrestrained and wholly dominant Republican regime would engender active opposition from most quarters in no time, as much from within their own ranks as without. The present system of pendulums and checks/balances prolongs the degeneration due to some aspects of hope and differentiation periodically injected in erstwhile 'business-as-usual' proceedings.

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