Wages Are Like Love

The circumstances of time and place are no different for employers and employees
by JEFFREY A. TUCKER

The Freeman
Mar. 19, 2014

All this talk about raising the minimum wage has very little to do with reality. Raising it will not create a single job—if you aren’t earning a wage, making yourself more expensive is not going gain you a job—and will not likely cause anyone’s wages to rise. It’s hard to find anyone who is actually willing to contradict those claims, because they stem from basic price theory: Less of the same good will be purchased at a higher price than a lower price.

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