My first, cynical thought was that they did it because the businesses told them that doing so would reduce their profit margins.

Or maybe gentrification runs out the poor, hard working population along with the poor, criminal riff-raff.

That's pretty much what I was thinking. A Corolla gets 30/40 mpg, is just shy of $17K starting, and carries at least 4 people. I just don't see anyone buying a Smart car unless they are trying to be trendy.

That's why we have so many illegal immigrants. "If I don't hire them (for peanuts), my competitors will and I'll go out of business!" Democrats see illegal immigrants as future voters, Republicans see them as cheap labor. Same with H-1B visa workers. Eliminate or reduce the H-1B visas and eliminate illegal immigration and wages will go up. Your comment only applies when our Congressmen game the system, and not even then precisely. Employers pay the prevailing rate, which often would be higher than minimum wage if there was no gaming. The comment about CEO pay is a non-sequitur for this topic.

Except that Citizens United works like this: A rich guy and a poor guy both go talk to a politician about an issue. The rich guy stuffs money into the politician's pocket, the poor guy can't. Guess which way the politician votes? When all men were created equal, apparently that doesn't include influence in the laws that are passed.

Neither unions or corporations should be allowed to steer money to politicians. If corporations, unions, and individuals are limited as to the monetary influence that can make, that levels the playing field.

Because you can't compete with people who game the system?

Great Britain is made up of England, Wales, and Scotland. The UK is made up of GB and Ireland. The British, therefore, would only be those people from GB.

I remember years ago on Sixty Minutes a story about Grace Hopper, who taught computer science. She had a spool of wire one thousand feet long and told students that that was a microsecond. I thought that it was a nice way to illustrate how much time you are wasting when your code takes just one microsecond longer to execute than necessary.

Well, if you are king, political parties are a moot point anyway. Of course, if you are king, you can do whatever you want, so abolish away.

The same kind of tool that wears a polo shirt with an alligator image on it (yes, I know, an ancient example), or any number of other clothing items. I guess you were never a teenager.

Kind of like telling a car noob that they need to replace their muffler bearings.

Because the Daily Mail is like the Onion, only the jokes are by accident.

From the Constitution: "...by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their..." The patents are from the Jurassic age, in software years.