Unintended consequences
Cry Wolf Quotes
The truth is that if your labor is worth $6.75 an hour and the minimum wage is raised to $7.75, you simply become unemployable. The first rung of the ladder is gone, and there's no place to start….This legislation is the ultimate expression of the cruelest of all human lies: ‘I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.'
New York State’s past independent pioneering activities in social legislation, while commendable in many respects…have already produced discriminatory differentials between the cost of doing business in New York and such costs in neighboring States [sic]. We can see no justification for deliberately increasing those differentials at this time by continuance of such pioneering.
[The income tax would] divide the population into two classes, the class which contributes to the support of the Government, and the class which does not contribute.
…the bill holds little or no relief for the home owner and threatens real harm to the home-owning family.
