A minimum wage is a government-mandated wage control that takes negotiating power away from workers and employers. There is a rare near consensus among economists that binding price controls distort economic activity, but politics often gets in the way of seeing the fallacy of a wage control. Setting a minimum wage floor above a market wage results in unemployment, especially for low-skilled workers. It also slows future job creation and pushes unemployed workers who would take a wage at less than a minimum wage into long periods of unemployment and dependency on family or taxpayers.
Local Government
Growing Pains: The Cost and Contribution of Impact Fees in Texas
Texas’s rapidly growing population requires new infrastructure and improvements, which oftentimes come at great expense. To fund these projects, local officials often impose impact fees on new development—but their use comes at a cost. Key points: Texas is the fastest-growing state in the nation. As such, it has robust infrastructure requirements. To help finance capital...
August 12, 2026