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.
Supervised Drug Consumption Sites: Overview and Model Legislation
Supervised drug consumption sites are causing more harm than the help they are allegedly providing. In cities where these sites have opened, they have attracted crime and ultimately failed to address the causes of overdose and addiction. Key points: Supervised drug consumption sites are illegal by federal law, but NGOs continue to try to open...