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Old 01-14-2007, 09:15 AM   #5
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just a typical day in the chambers of our nation's law makers....btw the exclusion was not done by pelosi (nice innuendo with delmonte/san francisco) but by the non-voting us rep from samoa. he's a democrat.

the existing minimum wage regs do not apply to workers in american samoa. there's also no tariffs on product imported to the usa from samoa. no tax on income a us citizen receives in samoa.

samoa gets a ton of special considerations...

found a dol study saying a minimum wage increase will not result in higher unemployment. labor is not a major cost and productivity is growing.

http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/AS/sec6.htm
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