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Tag: minimum wages

Right to work - Right to contract - Right to control?

By JGillman, Section News
Posted on Sun Jul 11, 2010 at 12:10:50 PM EST
Tags: Right to work, Control, Laws, Limitations, Michigan, Liberty, freedom, minimum wages, unions, business (all tags)

Unemployment is high. Manufacturing is moving out of state, and sometimes taking a "moving" opportunity" moving out of country.. Permanently.

While the meat heads in the labor unions are figuring out new ways to persuade our leaders to LIMIT the ability of Michigan business to operate, the scholars in many other countries are figuring out what made America so great for so many years. And while our leaders in Michigan insert their own brand of controls on Michigan residents and business owners, it offers an opportunity for those who create jobs to "supersize" their crap sandwich from the drive-through window of Lansing's growing bureaucracy.

Laws that tell you what you pay.. Laws that tell you whom you can hire.. Laws that tell you what legal substances can be used in the business you "own." Laws that govern whether you dismiss someone appropriately, the hours they work, and soon whether you should be providing insurance for them. Add to this, the business owner has become the tax collector.

Is this truly Liberty? The top four definitions would say not:

lib·er·ty
Showing Spelled[lib-er-tee]
-noun, plural -ties.

freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control.
freedom from external or foreign rule; independence.
freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, hampering conditions, etc.; power or right of doing, thinking, speaking, etc., according to choice.
freedom from captivity, confinement, or physical restraint: The prisoner soon regained his liberty.

Even as "right-to-work" legislation is being discussed, there is still absent a consideration of what it is that allows the government to set such controls on our ability to contract for ourselves in the first place.

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