The Detroit News is reporting this afternoon that the Michigan Democratic Party is proposing five issues to potentially appear on the 2010 general election ballot. They are: Raise the minimum wage from $7.40 an hour to $10 an hour and remove exceptions in the law that allow employers to pay less than minimum wage...
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How to Kill an Economy in Five Easy Steps
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We just got a preview of the Grand Rapids City Commission’s upcoming agenda. The resignation of Robert Dean from the commission created an opening which the commission needs to fill. Candidates were interviewed yesterday for the appointment. The interesting thing is that Mayor Heartwell says that the second round of interviews for the three...
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Michigan Minimum Wage Zealots
As GR Pundit readers should already know, there is a campaign in Michigan to get a proposal on the ballot to increase the state’s minimum wage to $7.15 an hour. We’ve already pointed out how increasing the minimum wage increases unemployment, but we’ve come across an amusing fact about the folks who are pushing...
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Minimum Wage Lunacy
This week the State’s Democrats proposed increasing the state minimum wage from $5.15 an hour to $7.15 an hour over two years. We’re dumbfounded. We can’t understand what they are thinking. The Democrats in Michigan (with the help of the Republicans) are responsible for the over-protection of unions in this state. Those unions have...
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‘SHOW ME THE JOBS’
It’s the irony of the year that the AFL-CIO stopped in Greenville to hold a “Show us the Jobs” rally this weekend. It is organizations like the AFL-CIO that advocate such job-killing measures as forced unionization and living wage laws that end up increasing unemployment. It is a pretty well-established fact in the world...
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