Feckless Attacks on Income Inequality
by Michael Barone As Barack Obama scrambles to eviscerate key sections of his own signature health care law, he and other Democrats are trying to shift voters’ focus to another issue…
Raise minimum wage?
“It’s not true that life is one damn thing after another — it’s one damn thing over and over.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay by George F. Will Liberals’ love…
Minimum Wage Hammers Youth
by Phil Kerpen With Democrats cratering in the polls over their collapsing health care law, they are trying to pivot to the only part of their policy agenda that still…
The Minimum Wage and Economic Reality
by Steve Chapman If you offer people something that is too good to be true, you will always find takers. Ask Bernie Madoff. Or ask Barack Obama. He recently proposed…
Killing the American Dream with the Minimum Wage
Political crusades for raising the minimum wage are back again. Advocates of minimum wage laws often give themselves credit for being more “compassionate” towards “the poor.” But they seldom bother…
The truth about the minimum wage
by Gordon Jones In early 2011, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the constitutionality of ObamaCare (né the Affordable Care Act of 2009). One would think that…