Raise The Minimum Wage? Not In The Obamacare Economy
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has moved forward a bill to raise the national minimum wage to $10.10 per hour. Not only would raising the minimum wage not help…
Capitol Hill Update, 28 April, 2014
Capitol Hill Update, 28 April, 2014 House & Senate/Schedule: Both chambers are back after a two-week recess. They will stay in D.C. for two weeks and recess next for the…
QE and Minimum Wage are State Sponsored Price Fixing
In his classic economic text, The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith had the following to say about collusion: “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and…
The Minimum Wage Doesn’t Help the Poor, It Traps Them
Republicans hate the poor. Why else would they consistently oppose increases to the minimum wage? This is the progressive drumbeat that we have heard year in and year out for…
Millennials: Barack Obama Thinks You are Worthless
Ask yourself this question; how much are you worth? Are you willing to put a price tag on your mind and your labor? I would assume that most of us…
The Minimum Wage is Still a Bad Idea
There’s quite a bit on Congress’s to do list entering this new year, especially with the 2014 midterms looming. Discontent with Democrats continues to grow as implementation of the Affordable…
Fallacy Friday: Debunking Arbitrary Increases in the Minimum Wage
Fallacy Friday: Raising the Minimum Wage In and of itself, the idea that raising the minimum wage somehow benefits the working class is a form of…
The Cruelty of the Minimum Wage
In his State of the Union speech Tuesday, President Obama called for an increase in the federal minimum wage, gloating that it had been endorsed even by his vanquished moderate…
President Obama’s Minimum Wage Hike Proposal Will Harm The Poor
In Tuesday's State of the Union Address, President Obama proposed raising the federally mandated minimum wage to $9 per hour, a 24% increase over the current mandate. In a subsequent…