The MinWage...

Did you ever ask yourself why the Gubmint is involved in setting, and enforcing, the Minimum Wage?  

Inserting its Heavy Hand between the worker and his employer?  Acting as deal-maker for every individual hiring decision.  Who appointed them to do that?

The MinWage is very simply the Gubmint deciding it has authority over every aspect of our puny little lives.  

Including where, and for whom, and at what wage.  Forcing  employers to do as it says.  First about this, and later about everything.  Let's take a hard look at it to help fuel our hatred:

The Minimum Wage was established as a part of FDR's 16 year assault on American's individual freedoms.  All excused because he was ostensibly attempting to help America out of its Great Depression.  First came the "National Industrial Recovery Act" of 1938.  A part of FDR's "New Deal."  And later the "Fair Labor Standards Act" of that same year.  They set the Minimum Wage at $0.25.  That was the Gubmint playing winners and losers, trying to punish the so-called "robber barons," who were exploiting the poor.  These laws were designed to help "establish a floor on wages to help folks out of poverty."  You can do a lot of damage with the very best of intentions...

As if its the Gubmint's place to micromange such things.  But as you can see, it's been doing it anyway for more than 85 years.

California established a MinWage back in 1916, if you're interested.  It established that MinWage at $0.16 an hour.

But the question I'm asking today is why Gubmint assumes it has both the authority, and the reason, to insert itself between a ready employer (buyer), and a ready employee (seller).  Isn't it a deal, a contract, struck between them, and them only?  

How is it that they each have a "silent partner" who presumes to set the price, the terms, and the conditions, under which the employer can employ, and the potential employee can accept that employment, before they can go to work?

It's very simple:  The Gubmint thinks the lowly worker is stupid.  Too stupid to find a job without being screwed.  So he needs the Gubmint to hold his hand.   

And that the Gubmint believes the employer is a rapacious slaver.  And I don't like it!

I should add about here that I owned and operated my own business, in the State of California, for nearly 40 years.  Being able to do that in California should get me sainted, but that's for another posting.  What you need to know is that for every dollar spent in wages, there's another $0.43 spent in Unemployment and Workers Compensation Insurance.  Which the State mandates.  And With 500,000 fast-food workers having just been given, GIVEN a 25% bump in pay, by the GUBMINT of California, to try and win votes.  Without regard for the damage it would do.  This should make you gasp at the Legislative overreach.  Whether you're a Liberal or a Conservative.  

And if it doesn't, you're a part of the problem...