So, another recommendation to raise the minimum wage. Will workers really be better off?
To figure this one out, one need only look at the large, empty buildings downtown. Can you say, “Price ourselves out of the market” or “send jobs overseas”?
The minimum wage, along with NAFTA and GATT, have alienated American industry and manufacturing. But, we can all be happy buying cheap, Communist, slave-labor goods at our local superstores.
–Frank Novotny, Biddeford
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