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by leonk 5228 days ago
This article is the biggest load of guff I have read this year. Absolutely no proof or argument is given that the minimum wage hurts the lower income population. Simply that well trained "economists" know it so. Elitists right-wring garbage.
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While this article didn't show anything, the mainstream argument about minimum wage causing labor surpluses is well enough explained on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage#Economics_of_the_m...
thanks. i was really unshure if i overlooked something, but there are really no arguments, just common logical error (correlation!=causality)