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Mr. Gardner, I could not agree more with your comment concerning the "minimum wage atrocity." Indeed, we should do away with the minimum wage completely. Contrary to your contention that full-time workers are "entitled" to a "living wage", workers are entitled to nothing but a wage commensurate with their value in the market place. A willing employer hires a willing employee and pays him/her exactly what that employer deems he/she is worth. The employee can take it or leave it, and government should have no, repeat No role in any of this. Historically, hikes in the minimum wage have led to immediate and sharp increases in unemployment among the very people Mr. Gardiner wishes to help; the low skilled, the young, and the uneducated. The national unemployment rate among this group currently sits at 24%. If you wish to hike that to 35% or so, by all means increase the minimum wage by 50%. However, if you wish to unleash the power of the marketplace and expand opportunities for those most in need, do exactly what Mr. Gardiner inadvertently says: "...abolish the minimum wage" altogether.

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