Here is an excellent article from Tech Central Station debunking more of the arguments in favor of raising (or even having) the minimum wage. Key point: within one year of being hired, 63 percent of workers who were initially paid the minimum wage receive raises and only 15 percent are still earning the min. wage after 3 years.

“Well, but what about those 15 percent?!” the statists will say. “Don’t they deserve a raise?”

Probably not. People are paid on the basis of productivity. Individuals with limited skills, perhaps owing to handicaps, may be unable to earn a pay increase and for the government to mandate one will cause some of those unfortunate people to become unemployable — in the “legal” economy anyway.