Wednesday, October 20, 2010

IT'S EASY TO FOOL THE BAGGERS

All you have to do is claim that something is unconstitutional and the rubes will believe you.  Two Senate candidates provide a good example.
Could the Courts Outlaw the Minimum Wage?
By Adam Cohen Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010
TIME Magazine

John Raese, the Republican candidate for Senator in West Virginia, is running against the minimum wage. But he is not just saying it is a bad idea — he's arguing that it is fundamentally unconstitutional. Joe Miller, the Republican candidate for Senate in Alaska, is saying the same thing.

The federal minimum wage has been around since Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938. In 1941, the Supreme Court upheld it by a unanimous vote, in a decision written by a Republican Justice. Among legal experts, there is little real debate about the minimum wage's constitutionality.

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