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I've always thought that the minimum wage was perfect liberal economics, in the sense that it perfectly encapsulates the liberal philosophy. Liberals see a problem: workers with low wages. Their solution: pass a law requiring those wages to be increased. What could be simpler?Bruce Bartlett has a point; I commented once when Christy Whitman was governor of New Jersey that I could imagine her trying to outlaw poverty, and Pataki somewhat notoriously remarked, on signing hate-crimes legislation, that the holocaust could have been avoided if Germany had had such a law in the thirties. Pataki and Whitman are both Republicans, but they both have this sort of populist streak, and this does seem like a very archetypically liberal worldview. |
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