Minimum Wage Terror

You're making $5.85 an hour and that's good enough for now. And you also have a friend standing flatfooted on the ground who would love to hop up onto that bottom rung next to you and make $5.85 an hour, which would be $5.85 an hour more than your friend is making right now. Then along comes Congress. As the fair, caring, sensitive, compassionate, progressive and socially responsible Congresscrats do periodically, they decide to help poor little ol' you by ramming through the Fair, Caring, Sensitive, Compassionate, Progressive And Socially Responsible Minimum Wage Act. So now your knees are quivering, standing there on that bottom rung, sweating out how the results of this benevolent legislation will hit you. Your boss is bound to say one of these things:

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