It's the same with taxes on cigarettes. Such taxes are not to get people to quit but to instead allow the illicit unstamped or out-of-state stamped cigarette market to flourish.
“It’s the same with taxes on cigarettes.”
I was standing in line at the checkout in Walmart the other day. I noticed the premium cigarettes such as Malboro were just shy of $10 a pack. I had no idea that they cost that much.
“High minimum wages are to incentivize employers to hire illegal aliens under the table at lower rates.”
There’s a clause in most union contracts that union wages will be X percent above the minimum wage. This is what drives ALL increases in the minimum wage.