{"id":44318,"date":"2014-06-01T11:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T16:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44318"},"modified":"2014-07-15T09:32:27","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T14:32:27","slug":"doakes-sunday-dubious-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=44318","title":{"rendered":"Doakes Sunday: Dubious Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Labour Party in Britian proposes to tie the minimum wage to average earnings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Doesn\u2019t\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2014\/may\/18\/ed-miliband-labour-minimum-wage-target-based-average-hourly-pay\">this simply shift the fight<\/a>\u00a0to Whose earnings?\u00a0 Everybody?\u00a0 Only Union?\u00a0 Excluding Government?\u00a0 Basing the minimum wage paid by McDonalds on the average wage paid to bureaucrats in Washington \u2013 is that sensible?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rife for political manipulation without transparency or accountability, just like every CBO report.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I know \u2013 let\u2019s tie the minimum wage to an international monetary standard like the Libor, that will eliminate all chance of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2014\/03\/14\/news\/companies\/fdic-libor-suit\/\">manipulation of the standard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>People seem amazed that when you turn things over to politicians, the solution is inevitably political.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: The Labour Party in Britian proposes to tie the minimum wage to average earnings. &nbsp; Doesn\u2019t\u00a0this simply shift the fight\u00a0to Whose earnings?\u00a0 Everybody?\u00a0 Only Union?\u00a0 Excluding Government?\u00a0 Basing the minimum wage paid by McDonalds on the average wage paid to bureaucrats in Washington \u2013 is that sensible? &nbsp; Rife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy-and-the-market","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44318"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45751,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44318\/revisions\/45751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}