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Unlike Levi's, Guess has made its way in the world by subcontracting out production work, violating minimum-wage and maximum-hour laws, and suing everyone in sight.
A few weeks earlier, during the minimum-wage debate (in which small business was once again singled out for favored tax treatment), virtually every opponent argued that raising the minimum wage could hurt small businesses--which create most of America's jobs.
In 1992, Guess paid the Labor Department $573,000 in fines for those minimum-wage and overtime-pay violations, and things seemed to have quieted down a bit within the bulletproof-windowed, razor-wire-surrounded stone building that serves as the company's bunker ...
He and his party learned the hard way that they were better off cooperating with Democrats on things the country wants, and trying to share the credit--hence the recent flurry of legislation passed with bipartisan support: welfare reform, health-care portability, and the minimum-wage increase.
Trouble is, we already have such a tax credit--it just got renewed as part of the minimum-wage bill, and it's a proven failure.