18 December 2006
Editor, Faithful America
Dear Editor:
Regarding your petition demanding that Congress raise the minimum-wage: You claim to be "morally outraged by the number of people living in poverty in the United States, and believe that now is the time to give hard-working low-wage workers a raise."
How convenient for you to be morally outraged that other people don't spend their money as you feel they should. If you are truly morally outraged, you would not demand that Congress force others to pay higher wages, especially given that so much evidence shows that minimum-wage legislation harms many poor workers. Instead, you and those who sign your petition would give directly to poor people your own resources. THAT would be commendable action - unlike your uninformed and personally inconsequential pontificating about the "need" for a higher minimum-wage.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Editor, Faithful America
Dear Editor:
Regarding your petition demanding that Congress raise the minimum-wage: You claim to be "morally outraged by the number of people living in poverty in the United States, and believe that now is the time to give hard-working low-wage workers a raise."
How convenient for you to be morally outraged that other people don't spend their money as you feel they should. If you are truly morally outraged, you would not demand that Congress force others to pay higher wages, especially given that so much evidence shows that minimum-wage legislation harms many poor workers. Instead, you and those who sign your petition would give directly to poor people your own resources. THAT would be commendable action - unlike your uninformed and personally inconsequential pontificating about the "need" for a higher minimum-wage.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Tuesday August 28, 2007 at 11:03am