Should There Be a Minimum Wage?
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Effective or not, at least the advocates of the minimum wage have good intentions.
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Dennis HackethalOP·#6150··Criticism
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. We all know a famous road that is paved with good intentions.
The people who go around talking about their soft heart …, it very often extends to their head as well, because … the programs that are labeled as being for the poor, for the needy, almost always have effects exactly the opposite of those which their well-intentioned sponsors intend them to have.