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Old 03-19-2013, 10:23 PM  
Gozarian
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You again, plua mea. Ce dracu, you are permanently on ignore. But I will blindly humor you.

Minimum wage laws do exactly what they are intended to do - namely elect and re-elect politicians who promote the regulation.

Politicians work to benefit their supporters (e.g. unions in your neck of the woods). Never underestimate the ability of a politician to know which side his bread is buttered.

They are, of course, aided by the village idiots (i.e. bleeding heart and self anointed intellectuals) who promote these ideas. But even these people are only espousing their beliefs in their own self interest. For example, you can't sell an economics book to government schools unless it promotes the beliefs that government employees hold dear.

There are those who get sucked into the fallacious arguments, and these people occasionally show up in the comment sections of websites such as these.

But as always, follow the money (and power) to understand the real motivations of those that create the laws.
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