minimum wage poetic justice?
Topics: Regulation
03 Oct 1993
From: ervan
>From this month's "Liberty":
Regulation at a new height -- In a memo to President Clinton,
Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has proposed raising the minimum wage
from the current $4.25 an hour to at least $4.50 an hour, and then
indexing it to inflation. After all, surely workers would be better
off making $4.50 and $4.25. In that spirit, I wonder if the Clinton
administration would consider increasing the minimum height of U.S.
workers to five feet. After all, surely workers would be better off
if they were at least five feet tall. Robert Reich would be out of
a job, but isn't it better to have a few people on welfare as long as
most workers are taller? ---David Boaz
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