Liberals legislating morality in Sante Fe

Christopher Chantrill:

This month, in the liberal bastion of Santa Fe, New Mexico, they are raising the minimum wage in the city to $9.50 per hour. The measure applies to all businesses with 25 or more employees.

The driving force behind this decision was Acorn, the “national community organization,” as Jon Gertner describes it in The New York Times Magazine for January 15, 2006.

Acorn has discovered that the way to win on the minimum wage issue is to cast it not as an economic issue but as a moral issue. When Santa Fe’s City Council got a round table of nine residents to “settle the specifics of the proposed living-wage law” they found that

“What really got the other side was when we said, ‘It’s just immoral to pay people $5.15, they can’t live on that.”

On February 26, 2003, the council voted to “set a wage floor at $8.50 an hour,” increasing to $9.50 in January 2006 and $10.50 in 2008 for businesses employing 25 or more people.

So liberals believe in legislating morality after all. They just draw the line at other people legislating morality.

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Why not raise it to $200 an hour? Wouldn't that make it even more moral.

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