Opponents of the minimum wage claim it has these effects:

Opponents claim that Contra warfare had largely died down, and that the Sandinistas had grown increasingly unpopular, particularly due to forced conscription and crackdowns on political freedoms.

Opponents say that such a market would encourage criminals by making it easier for them to claim that their stolen organs were legal.

" Opponents claim that they deviate from the text in a number of places ( for example, the Baker is supposed to have whiskers and hair, Fit the Fourth, but in the illustrations he is bald ) and hence should be discounted.

Opponents such as land and mining claim holders blocked efforts to reclassify the monument as a U. S. National Park for 11 years.

Opponents, who sometimes say that affirmative action is " reverse discrimination ", further claim that affirmative action has undesirable side-effects in addition to failing to achieve its goals.

Opponents of Communist states claim that this is a form of indoctrination.

Opponents often claim this technology will be used primarily to enforce digital rights management policies and not to increase computer security.

Opponents to the theory deny the existence of the panthers or claim that witnesses are simply mis-identifying the native lynxes or " bobcats ".

Opponents of his regime claim that he has used money amassed through weapons sales, narcotics, international loans, and confiscation of private property to enrich himself and his political cronies who hold his dictatorship together, and that the $ 900 million published by Forbes is merely a portion of his assets, although that needs to be proven.

Opponents of the bill claim it has reduced America's international competitive edge against foreign financial service providers, saying SOX has introduced an overly complex regulatory environment into U. S. financial markets.

Opponents to both of these methods point to the large increase in reporting requirements they impose, and claim that they rob industry of necessary flexibility.

Opponents claim that a hermeneutic approach is too relativist and that their own interpretations are based on common-sense evaluation.

Opponents of such advocacy rebut this claim by pointing to the ability of same-sex couples to disperse their assets by will.

Opponents of the FMA claim polling of the public has shown a cautious response, with many polls indicating opposition, even in states such as Arizona and Colorado which are normally thought of as socially conservative.

Opponents claim that the move would result in the closure of post offices and in job losses at the nation's largest employer.

Opponents and critics of Ibn Taymiyyah claim that he rejected intercession completely as proved in Qur ' an and Sunnah.

Opponents claim that it is illegal to give or accept anything that has pecuniary value in exchange for a vote.

Opponents to the relocation policy claim that the government's intent is to clear the area – an area the size of Denmark — for the lucrative tourist trade and diamond mining.

Opponents of desegregation busing claim that children were being bused to schools in dangerous neighborhoods, compromising their education and personal safety.

Opponents claim that Dimitrov was the most loyal " lap dog " of Stalin and Stalin did not have a real reason to kill him.

Opponents of evolution claim that there is significant dissent on evolution within the scientific community.

Opponents claim they are " socialist " and innovations of Islam.

Opponents claim the barrier severely restricts the local population, particularly in their ability to travel freely over the border and to access work, thereby undermining their economy.

Opponents of certain privatizations believe that certain public goods and services should remain primarily in the hands of government in order to ensure that everyone in society has access to them ( such as law enforcement, basic health care, and basic education ).

Opponents would say that this is a false assertion: numerous books refer to poor organization between government departments ( for example the Hurricane Katrina incident ).

Opponents raised questions about censorship and government persecution.

Opponents, such as Dean Russell in The TVA Idea, in addition to condemning the project as being socialist, argued that TVA created a " hidden loss " by preventing the creation of " factories and jobs that would have come into existence if the government had allowed the taxpayers to spend their money as they wished.

Opponents of the current reform care proposals fear that U. S. comparative effective research ( a plan introduced in the stimulus bill ) will be used to curtail spending and ration treatments, which is one function of NICE, arguing that rationing by market pricing rather by government is the best way for care to be rationed.

Opponents also state categorizing patients based on factors such as social value to the community or age will not work in a heterogeneous society without a common ethical consensus such as the U. S. Doug Bandow of the CATO Institute wrote government decision making would " override the differences in preferences and circumstances " for individuals and that it is a matter of personal liberty to be able to buy as much or as little care as one wants.

Opponents of reunification generally favor continued independence for the Republic of China or another government controlling the same territories.

Opponents increasingly invoked the memory of the Battle of Liberty Place of 1874, in which the white supremacist White League staged an uprising against Louisiana's Reconstruction-era government.

Opponents alleged that the Town government was excessively partial to Airtricity and the participating landowners, that it failed to take into consideration any of the possible negative impacts of turbine development, and did not make enough effort to negotiate a favourable deal with Airtricity on its own part ( towns can require various things of a wind developer, specifically among them a Payment in Lieu of Taxes, or PILOT ).

Opponents of the plan, favoring remaining under direct King County government, asserted fears that increased density and higher taxes would result from annexation despite proponents showing studies that taxes and fees would be unchanged.

Opponents of the plan for stronger government took the name Anti-Federalists.

Opponents of redistribution argue that redistribution is not only inefficient ( the bucket leaks ), but unjust ( income or wealth should not be redistributed by the government at all, but rather the market alone should decide distribution ).

Opponents warned that the measure would lead to massive cuts in government services.

Opponents outside the government included the supporters of Messali Hadj, the PCA, and the left-wing Socialist Revolution Party ( Parti de la Révolution Socialiste, PRS ) led by Mohamed Boudiaf.

Opponents of the grapheme transliteration model continued to mount unsuccessful attempts at reversing government policy until the turn of the century, with one critic calling appealing to " the Indian Government to give up the whole attempt at scientific ( i. e. Hunterian ) transliteration, and decide once and for all in favour of a return to the old phonetic spelling.

Opponents, including former Great Council Chairman Ganilau, said that it was just a legal device to free government supporters who had been convicted and imprisoned on coup-related charges.

Opponents of the " color revolutions " have accused the Soros Foundations and / or the United States government of supporting and even planning the revolutions in order to serve western interests.

Opponents of the government tried to make political capital of the affair, the anti-Semitic Libre Parole even charging her with having poisoned President Faure.

Opponents of the organization often argue that it should instead focus on addiction treatment or lobbying for government health care.

Opponents further argued that the " police power " of government enabled legislatures to regulate the holding of property in the public interest, subject only to specific prohibitions of the written constitution.

Opponents of the Castro government outside of Cuba expressed skepticism about the legitimacy of Ochoa's arrest and execution.

Opponents of government regulation of payday loan businesses argue that some individuals that require the use of payday loans have already exhausted or ruined any other alternatives.

Opponents also cite problems with defining who is considered a journalist or news gatherer and who is not, and note that if journalists get special protection from the government, then they are getting special journalistic benefits from the government instead of acting in complete independence.