[T]here's no more reason to believe that arbitrarily raising the minimum wage will elevate the poor to economic security than throwing them off of a building will teach them to fly.
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Burying the Living Wage Myth
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So, Really, Why Does Inequality Exist?
There is simply no solution to basic inequality, but that's not to say that society shouldn't care about inequality.
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5 Points Proving the Left Doesn’t Understand Simple Economics
Here are 5 major Leftist policy points that prove the Left has absolutely no idea how economies actually work.
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A Short Word: Sitting for Freedom
To compel others to violate their conscience simply because it is "nationalist" carries the poisonous stink of Mao's Communist Party loyalty patrols.
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A Short Word: The Dirty Truth About Immigration
We have been duped into believing that the government, with a motion of Congress and the signature of the President, can change the very economic laws of supply and demand with no negative consequences whatsoever.
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The Cold Shower
As long as what American workers are paid is not in line with what they produce, then natural market forces are going to continue to force good manufacturing and textile jobs out of the United States, cutting off American workers from the good jobs that are necessary to allow unskilled and uneducated individuals to penetrate the middle class.
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Trade Policy: No Bulls in the China Shop
If Trump honestly believes he can bully the Chinese government, he has already lost.
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Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire.
The left has spent half a century fighting the smoke, not the fire, which is why their policies continue to fail to effectively reduce the persistent generational poverty in cities across the United States.
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The Economy: Crash Cart Politics
Excuses won't improve the economy but frankly neither will political rhetoric. Like a medical drama, the disease isn't what's killing the patient, it's the treatment.
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Minimum Wage: Down the Rabbit Hole
The minimum wage remains a fiercely debated issue, and the conservative position is too often misrepresented and caricatured into an indefensible straw man.
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The “Fair” Problem: Peanuts for Everybody
The most compelling argument against conservatism is that it is inherently unfair and discriminates against underprivileged classes of people.