What harm do minimum wages do?

Re:What harm do minimum wages do? by dmitriid on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @03:55PM (#24215452)

Ok then. What would taxes look like in a "free market" where "no one is entitled to anything"?

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Re:What harm do minimum wages do? by OCASM on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @04:22PM (#24215848)

There would be no taxes, only voluntary cooperation.

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Re:What harm do minimum wages do? by dmitriid on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @04:52PM (#24216264)

What is this ideal world, I want to live in it.

Reality and all of history tells us that doesn't work at scale.

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Re:What harm do minimum wages do? by OCASM on Wednesday August 19, 2020 @08:30PM (#24218545)

The US used to have very little taxation. It worked fine then. Ever increasing government reach wasn't always the norm.

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Re:What harm do minimum wages do? by dmitriid on Thursday August 20, 2020 @01:42AM (#24220263)

When was this "very little taxation that worked"?

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