Unintended consequences
Cry Wolf Quotes
If my company were compelled to raise all of our female rates in this plant to the male rates in question, it would seriously jeopardize the competitive position of this plant with its competitors located in other states employing all females in these jobs.
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Jerry N. Markham, director of industrial relations, Thatcher Glass Manufacturing Company, Testimony, House Hearing.
This fight's not over… The best-intentioned employer isn't going to be able to figure out [the standards], even if he has hundreds of lawyers. It's like getting your arms around a bowl of Jell-O.
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Randy Johnson, a vice president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, The Los Angeles Times.
My aim is to put back some common sense. We're not doing students any favor by telling them, 'You cannot work.'
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Jane Cunningham, state senator from Missouri (R )
It should have been obvious from experience—but wasn’t—that additional hard work, genius, creativity and risk-taking were all discouraged by high marginal tax rates.
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Reagan Treasury Secretary Donald Regan’s Address to the Business Council, 1984.
