A Tale of Two Bridges
The government, famed for building bridges to nowhere, can’t replace a bridge blown down by Hurricane Katrina in four times the time required
The government, famed for building bridges to nowhere, can’t replace a bridge blown down by Hurricane Katrina in four times the time required
When it comes to matters such as the theory of evolution and stem-cell research, so-called liberals—i.e., socialists who have stolen the name that
This means that employment among the young, the inexperienced, and unskilled will decline with the institution of a higher minimum wage.
What's truly ironic is that this alleged benefit is reduced when the government forces every business to raise wages.
In a letter to Mill, dated July 27, 1820, Ricardo refers to the doctrine that a general overproduction is impossible and that capital can never increase too rapidly, as "Say's and your doctrine of accumulation."
People voting for the minimum wage indulge a fantasy that they are helping the hard-working down-on-his-luck adult minimum-wage earner who is struggling to support a family. Instead they are preventing the sweet, earnest but maybe-a-little slow kid living down the block from getting that first job, because his output does not reach the economic level required by a wage that government has set too high.
Here’s an interesting excerpt from an interview with David Card by the Mi