The Unbroken Window

I was basically called out in print yesterday for being morally corrupt. Why? Because I think that the minimum wage is an awful way to help those in need. Who called me out? An esteemed philosophy professor of course! Here is my reply:
Minimum Wage: Rhetoric, Not Reality
Disagreements about the minimum wage have nothing whatsoever to […]

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I was basically called out in print yesterday for being morally corrupt. Why? Because I think that the minimum wage is an awful way to help those in need. Who called me out? An esteemed philosophy professor of course! Here is my reply:
Minimum Wage: Rhetoric, Not Reality
Disagreements about the minimum wage have nothing whatsoever to […]

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Dear Editor,
Mr. Wendell Anderson is absolutely right that we should work to raise the wages of the poor. But bashing Mike Harmon for his opposition to the minimum wage is misguided. Higher minimum wages raise the cost of doing business and price the lowest skilled workers out of the labor force.
If Mr. Anderson truly […]

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics has announced that effective with the release of the January 2007 CPI, it will publish index levels to three decimal places under the pretense that a more precise presentation of the index will eliminate rounding errors in reporting percent changes in the current CPI. To deal with inflation statistics in […]

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August marked the ten year anniversary of the latest alteration to the welfare system. The major change enacted was the substitution of federally managed entitlement cash grants (Aid to Families with Dependent Children) with a federally-funded state-run program of cash grants conditional on work requirements and participation limits (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families).
Predictably caseloads dramatically […]

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