[Buckeye McFrog]

The government does not have the right to set an hourly pay rate.

They've been doing it since 1938

[ExSES]

The government does not have the right to set an hourly pay rate.

They've been doing it since 1938

Generally yes but,the Guv'mint set wages as part of the "New Deal" under the "NRA" (National Recovery Act) which was held to be unconstitutional several years before . They also set wage rates on federal contracts under many acts in decades previous to that.