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To: Lane3 who wrote (26810)	8/18/2006 4:11:20 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543302

I think the connection is a bit stronger than that. If the minimum wage is sufficiently low the impact on liberty is minimal because few people would get paid less than the minimum wage even if it was legal to do so. To put it another way a law telling you that you can't do something you don't want to do, or if fact can not do, reduces your liberty less than a law that does force you to make actual changes in what you would do. So the current minimum wage impacts liberty less than say a $10/hour minimum wage, while a 2 cent per hour minimum wage would only have a theoretical impact on liberty. Liberty is perhaps not the main interest against a minimum wage increase, but fighting for such a reduction has a lot more connection to liberty than it does to "the death of public transportation". I didn't claim that an increase would signal the death of libertarianism. I don't think anyone has said it signifies the death of anything, except maybe the death of the current law on minimum wages.