“utterly stupid government MINIMUM WAGE”
You think somebody working on a Tyson processing line is not worthy of what their state says is the minimum wage?
Government minimum wages might be limited to corporations. People who can’t work well enough might then work for individuals.
Wage and price controls along with all the other government command and controls are not only patently unconstitutional governmental expansions of power (the REAL issue here), and thus, illegal, but also killers of the marketplace and the economy.
The higher minimum wage goes, the fewer retail stores and/or industrial plants because fewer consumers can afford the forced higher prices. Results - forced lower business revenues and less supply overall. Why do you think counties with command and control economies constantly have empty grocery shelves?
Basic Econ 101 and 102.
The federal government is not your friend. That Bureaucratic Head in distant Washington DC doesn’t get up every morning thinking about how he can help you. He gets up thinking about how he can make more money by enlarging his bureaucracy so he can have a nicer house, nicer vacations, and his kid go to nicer universities.
Larger unconstitutional bureaucracies directly reduce your freedoms, your money, and your very livelihood.