Mises Wire
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What a wacky world we live in. An issue called the minimum wage fascinates the Pols even more than the price of meatloaf and 3 in the Senate cafeteria. Newspaper headlines hammer home this crisis in remuneration — I mean the minimum wage, not the price of meatloaf. Forget that only 3% of hourly workers make less than the current $5.25. Only 13%