Let’s Talk About… The Minimum Wage

Everybody wants to make more money. It doesn’t seem right that someone working full-time should struggle to feed themselves and their family. That’s why many people argue for a higher minimum wage. But is it a deal too good to be true? Like many well-intentioned government interventions, mandated minimum wages tend to hurt the very people they are designed to help. Instead of lifting people at the margins out of poverty, the minimum wage locks them out of the job market entirely, giving them no path to achieve financial independence and the self-worth that comes with it. Matt Kibbe explains it all in this episode of Let’s Talk About…

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Matt Kibbe is President of Free the People. A fanatical DeadHead, drinker of craft beer and whisky, and collector of obscure books on Austrian economics, Kibbe is the host of BlazeTV’s Kibbe on Liberty, a weekly podcast that insists you think for yourself.

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  • Aug 2, 2022
    Voluntaryist

    Workers and employers should understand that govt. is not reason, under the political paradigm, it is force, threats, fraud, and therefore uses coercion against innocent citizens to interfere in business, distorting the economy, disrupting the market, destroying wealth, just as taxation does.

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  • Oct 20, 2022
    Brad Makowski

    you got it stay there! peace out! bye! Brad M.

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