Disgusting Slobs

"The minimum wage is nothing but a huge off-the-books tax paid by a small group of people, with all the proceeds paid out as the equivalent of welfare to a different small group of people. If a tax-and-spend program that arbitrary were spelled out explicitly, voters would recoil. How unfortunate that when it is disguised as a minimum wage, not even our Republican president can manage to muster a principled objection."

That's some Ridiculous Creep over at Slate, moaning about principles, but you're not going to find a single word about private property or its necessary implications, in the whole article.

Here is the haut ton of the day: X-eyed ignorance of one's subject ("If you want to transfer income to the working poor, there are fairer and more honest ways to do it."), swiped with a dish-rag and lovingly placed in the shop window where eager skeevers and crooks are happy to admire it.

The minimum wage is not principally an economic issue, kids. It is a political issue, having to do with the right to conduct one's own affairs as one sees fit.

This entire debate is impertinent, at best. All of them should be ashamed of themselves, but they won't be, because they're ignorant.