Thursday, January 04, 2007

Mininum Wages of Sin

I notied today that everyone's favorite bowtie wearing conservative (not Tucker), George Will, again called for abolishing the minimum wage.

The quote to know:
"But the minimum wage should be the same everywhere: $0. Labor is a commodity; governments make messes when they decree commodities' prices." (note to Mr. Will: what about farm subsidies?)

Is it me, or does a minimum wage of 0 only insure that more and more illegal immigrants come to this country. As it stands now, people who make far far less than the avg. native born American are willing to come because the wage offered here is better than home. By lowering it further still (see the news about Wal-Mart and their idea for flex hours to get an idea about where cheap labor is heading), we will insure that others will find their way to do the work that no native born poeple would shake a stick at, thereby creating an even bigger illegal immigrant situation that we currently face. Certain immigrants would only work for $5, others for $4, still others for $3. Still beats working for Nike in Bangladesh.

To follow Mr. Will's logic, why have a minimum work age? Labor is a commidity, why not laborers? If 11 year olds want to quit school to cut George Will's lawn for $2.28 an hour, then what could be wrong with that. Supply, meet demand.

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