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The_Doctor
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« on: June 29, 2017, 03:19:03 PM »

I'd been meaning to respond to this, but Seattle's minimum wage hike is a demonstration that minimum wage hikes by fiat is usually not a good idea. The last minimum wage hike hurt younger workers and teenagers. I should also point out only 5% of Americans work on the minimum wage and it's far better to create economic pressure on wages via other measures (through better education, through better infrastructure).

Ideally, we would repeal the minimum wage but devote more attention to pushing measures that would actually create economic forces to push wages up. I'm thinking community colleges, trade schools, better infrastructure for rural areas.
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