The Young and the Jobless
3rd October 2009
You would think that even stupid people like Congressmen would realize that, when you increase the price of something, the demand for it goes down — something that even high school students can grasp.
But of course they do understand that; they just don’t care. What they care about are the votes of union members, whose wages go up with each rise in the minimum wage, and to hell with unemployed students who aren’t old enough to vote anyway.