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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: net.politics.theory
Subject: Re: Wage Rates: Unions, Minimum Wage Laws, and Employer Oligopoly
Message-ID: <1376@dciem.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 19:17:15 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  9 19:17:15 1985
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Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
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>In article <595@tty3b.UUCP> mjk@tty3b.UUCP (Mike Kelly) writes:
>>The consequences are such only if capital is allowed to
>>define economic fact.  Unemployment is a poltical problem, not an
>>economic fact.   That it remains is evidence of lack of
>>political will to solve it.
>>
>>Mike Kelly
> 
>But Mike, every time somebody points out the political actions needed
>to solve the unemployment problem, you get upset. The three things
>usually pointed to are:
> 
>1) Getting rid of the minimum wage laws.
>2) Placing labor and corporate monopolies on equal legal footing.
>3) Lowering the welfare payment levels to the point where working is
>        preferable to staying in the program.
> 
>Do you have a counter-proposal for political action that will solve the
>unemployment problem?
> 
>