Columnist David Ignatius states in a recent headline: “America won’t be back until inequality fixed.”
Minimum wage laws have good intentions. But do they deliver fairness? Or equality? Don’t they too often seemingly do the opposite? Besides, are they backed by the Constitution as claimed?
If an employer offers a product at a low price and thereby feeds himself and his family but pays rather low hourly wages at first, how can this be unfair if countless novice employees would seek lower-pay jobs on their gradual ascent up personal success ladders, often via different employers? Free training with merit-based wages.
Labor unions never revealed what constitutional paragraphs minimum wage laws were founded on. Will David Ignatius? What might Sid Schwab say? One wonders.
Gunnar Unneland
Shoreline
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