by Ira Stoll. President Obama and congressional Democrats are pressing to increase the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Here are nine reasons why that’s a bad idea. 1. It’s a big country. The costs of living,
especially housing, vary widely in America from state to state and
city to city. If the point of raising the minimum wage is to ... MORE
Showing posts with label youth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label youth. Show all posts
Nine Reasons Why The Minimum Wage Is A Terrible Idea
by Ira Stoll. President Obama and congressional Democrats are pressing to increase the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. Here are nine reasons why that’s a bad idea. 1. It’s a big country. The costs of living,
especially housing, vary widely in America from state to state and
city to city. If the point of raising the minimum wage is to ... MORE11 Facts About Minimum Wage Obama Forgot To Mention
Raising the hiring cost of teenagers. During his annual State of the Union address before Congress,
President Barack Obama made a big deal about the need to increase the
federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. The move followed months of
promises and rhetoric from the White House about how important it was to
the economy to increase ... MORENick Gillespie: Will Rand Paul Mainstream Libertarianism?
On his way to the White House. The Sunday morning talk shows are abuzz with disussion about
a long and interesting article about Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) in
The New York Times written by Sam Tanenhaus and Jim Rutenberg. I'm
not particularly familiar with Rutenberg's work, but Tanenhaus is a
really sharp historian of ideology in American ... MORE
Victor Davis Hanson: Young People Have Been Had
Hornswoggled by hope and change. There are all sorts of time bombs embedded within Obamacare. Will we force doctors to treat the millions of new Medicaid patients who are signing up for services that can be only partially reimbursed? How exactly will the IRS collect penalties from millions of off-the-books youth who choose not to buy ... MOREAndrew Napolitano: The Pope And Basic Economics
What is the worst problem in the world today? Might it be war, starvation, genocide, sectarian violence, murder, slaughter of babies in the womb? Any of these would be a rational answer. But when Pope Francis was asked this question recently, he replied, "Youth unemployment." To be sure, youth unemployment is a serious ... MOREHow ObamaCare Rips Off The 'Young Healthies'
by Carl Schramm, WSJ. When ObamaCare is under attack, its defenders retreat to several well-worn claims. Among them is a provision that compels insurance companies to allow parents to keep their "children" ages of 21 to 26 on their family policies. Yet this part of the Affordable Care Act was not engineered in response to any ... MORENick Gillespie: GOP - Go Young Or Go Home!
Party must channel their inner libertarian. Earlier this year, Bobby Jindal, the GOP governor of Louisiana,
surveyed the wreckage of Mitt Romney’s sad-sack presidential
campaign and told his fellow Republicans that if they ever want to
capture the White House again, “we
must stop being the stupid party.” While Michele Bachmann’s ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Are Guns The Problem?
Moral values, not laws, make a civilized society. When I attended primary and secondary school — during the 1940s and '50s — one didn't hear of the kind of shooting mayhem that's become routine today. Why? It surely wasn't because of strict firearm laws. My replica of the 1902 Sears mail-order catalog shows 35 pages of firearm ... MOREMajority Of Young Voters Favor Bigger Government
Public school is serving its purpose. A Pew Research post-election poll found that a majority of young voters who were 18-29 years of age preferred bigger government. According to the survey, 59% of young voters said “government should do more to solve problems” while only 37% felt “government is doing too many things better left to businesses ... MOREWalter E Williams: Future Generations
Behaving like there is no tomorrow. Is there any reason for today's Americans to care about what happens to tomorrow's Americans? After all, what have tomorrow's Americans done for today's Americans? Moreover, since tomorrow's Americans don't vote, we can dump on them with impunity. That's a vision that describes the actual behavior ... MOREGreg Lukianoff: Feigning Free Speech On Campus
Our political correctness zones. Despite high youth voter turnout in 2008 — 48.5 percent of 18- to 24-year-olds cast ballots that year — levels are expected to return to usual lows this year, and with that the usual hand-wringing about disengagement and apathy among young voters. Colleges and universities are supposed to be bastions ... MOREThe Unintended Consequences Of Minimum Wage
by Luis San Vincente Portes. New Jersey's Democratic leaders are seeking to include on the 2013 ballot a
proposal to increase the minimum wage in the state from $7.25 to $8.25
per hour and to automatically tie it to further increases in the cost of
living. The initiative is founded on states’ ability to set a minimum
wage apart from the federal under the ... MOREAndrew B. Wilson: Sleepless In St. Louis
Entrepreneur/super-mom fears an Obama victory. No one would mistake my sister Dodie -- a super-mom (sometimes tiger mom) and entrepreneur -- for a hand-wringing pessimist. Intrepid and resourceful, she always rises to the moment -- like the "unsinkable" Molly Brown in the musical about the Titanic. But now (even after the smack-down ... MOREMotivating Youth To Watch Presidential Debates
by Katie Kieffer. Hit the gym; grab dinner with friends; build a bonfire. These are three evening activities I prefer to watching presidential debates—and I am a political commentator. Few young people watch presidential debates and I understand why. After Wednesday’s initial presidential debate, I realized that Republicans are failing to exploit the debates and ... MORE
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)