{"id":67565,"date":"2018-08-03T05:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67565"},"modified":"2018-08-02T20:30:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T01:30:33","slug":"of-pikers-and-pimps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67565","title":{"rendered":"Of Pikers And Pimps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>St. Paul and Minneapolis are considering raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour.\u00a0 There are no studies on the effect of a $15 per hour minimum wage because it\u2019s never been that high.\u00a0 The studies of effects of prior minimum wage increases go both ways, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2018\/07\/28\/in-st-pauls-15-wage-debate-advocates-and-critics-cite-studies-but-what-do-they-say\/\">depending on who you believe<\/a>.\u00a0 What to do?<\/p>\n<p>This is where it helps to be conservative, because we have principles to guide our actions, not just feelings.\u00a0 One principle is:\u00a0 \u201cThere\u2019s no such thing as a free lunch.\u201d\u00a0 Another is:\u00a0 \u201cDon\u2019t tear down a fence until you know why it was built.\u201d \u00a0The core thought underlying these principles is to make changes cautiously, only when you\u2019re certain they won\u2019t cause more harm than good.\u00a0 Since the evidence is equivocal, adherence to conservative principles would dictate that we not raise the minimum wage to $15.<\/p>\n<p>But Democrats are not conservatives so they have no such principles to restrain them.\u00a0 They\u2019re going to raise it because it will please the mob and that\u2019s the most important thing to them.\u00a0 So if you\u2019re going to raise it despite the evidence, why stop at $15?\u00a0 Why not raise it to $100 per hour and we\u2019ll all be rich?\u00a0 Pikers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Power is the principle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: St. Paul and Minneapolis are considering raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour.\u00a0 There are no studies on the effect of a $15 per hour minimum wage because it\u2019s never been that high.\u00a0 The studies of effects of prior minimum wage increases go both ways, depending on who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,16,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalism-v-socialism","category-conservatism","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67565","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=67565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67566,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67565\/revisions\/67566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}