If a living wage were established as law, nobody would hold a gun on a businessman and force him to hire "x" number of people or any at all!
What the hell are you talking about, man? Having a living wage law established would exactly be holding a gun on a business man!!! Do you have ANY idea how many small businesses would fold and what that would do to this country??
You don't make sense!
I re-read my post and I think I stated pretty clearly that a businessman's staffing needs would be his business. How is that extortion? The manpower cost is a minimum of "x" per hour....you can hire as many as you want or none at all!
Why can't people just say that they understand where I'm coming from and state that they disagree and believe that it's okay to pay people less than it costs to live in exchange for providing a service that the employer (hopefully) makes a profit on?