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In reply to the discussion: Can we talk about a Maximum Wage? [View all]FrodosPet
(5,169 posts)3 times minimum wage? 5? 8? 15? 25?
Remember, if you set it too low, you will start to hit non-managerial skilled workers. And goodness knows how much fraud, delayed compensation, expense padding, and corruption there will be to bypass it. Just like drug prohibition - if people want something, they will ignore the law to get it.
So we spend government money to get the cops to go after them. Paper trail investigations, search warrants for financial records an emails. Might even need some phone surveillance and trips to the Cayman Islands to really find the dirt on all this new money laundering.
But cops tend to be authoritarian assholes, and we don't like them, and are not supposed to call them and should be working to get rid of them. So who is going to enforce the maximum wage laws? Making laws is relatively easy. Enforcing them is difficult.