Continuing the enhanced unemployment benefits is being seen as a threat to the success of small business. If recent graphics are correct, people who were making $7.25 an hour are less likely to seek employment in the $7.25 range than the people who were making $15.00 an hour and seek $15.00 an hour employment. Who’da thunk?
How are small businesses to survive if they can’t pay their labor force indentured servant wages?
It vaguely rings of labor concerns in the nineteenth century. Southern plantations couldn’t survive if the historical labor force was required to receive a living wage. We went to war over that labor dispute, and even though the carnage ended, the American economic mythology remained.
Small business wants “small government” to muscle its way in and solve the sustainability problem. The real problem is when a small business, a mediocre business or a big business doesn’t have the smarts, the acumen, the where-with-all, a clue or common sense to succeed financially without “small government” stepping in and enforcing regulations requiring a portion of its population to live in poverty.
Artelle Cracraft, Tooele
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