Small Business undermind by smal minds

Abraham Lincoln once said, that you should get paid a dollar for a dollars worth of work or words to that effect. What has been a big drag on our small businesses is government, by establishing minimum wage laws, placed a hindrance on them since its inception. With the recent increase in the minimum wage, it has been said that 200 thousand workers were laid off. Minimum wage takes the quality of the work performed out of the equation--the one that hires a person should be allowed to determine the worth of the person hired. By setting minimum wages , government is catering to the lowest denominator in the work-force--the person who does not give a damn about his performance, the quality or quantity of his work. He gets paid just as much as the hard worker, the productive person. This is Crazy. That's catering to sloth. In other words, you are, by government mandate, once again entitled to the same pay, even if you are a non-productive drag on the business, Only a stupid person would say this is good for our nations productive capacity. By that is what big government is forcing on them. This is why socialism has never worked! The say equal pay for equal work--but compels a business man to pay the unproductive the same pay as the hard-working productive person. Pretty soon the productive person will realizae he is working his ass off and getting the same pay. Guess what he does? http//themessengerpage.blogspot.com - The Messenger