How many more people would have jobs if employers could legally pay them almost nothing? That’s an interesting question. But I’d like the answer to a different question. Pollsters should go around to small business owners and ask them how low of a wage they’d be willing to pay their employees before they felt bad about it. You know, would you be willing to pay your employees one buck per hour of work? And what could you do with that privilege? Could you expand your business with these workers who are willing to work for such a pittance? What would you expect them to be qualified to do? Whatever the result, we could call it the Asshole Ratio. It would tell us the percentage of small business owners who are plain and simple assholes. That would probably turn out be 30%, the same number that stuck with Dubya to the bitter end.
