[Torie]

You still prefer employers to subsidize low productivity, low value added, workers rather than the government, despite the hideous attendant economic inefficienies associated with doing it that way. Oh well. "Idoits" like Milton Friedman prefer the government doing it via the negative income tax. Actually, I heard Milty on the Limbaugh show last Friday, with guest host Walter Williams. The guy was still going strong at 91. He didn't sound like an idiot to me.

[parsifal]

No. Miltie is far from an idiot. He is a very intelligent person who just happens to be completely wrong about living wages. But he grew up in a time when a person could live/survive on minimum wage. If he had to work for $3.35/hour in the 80's, he would have come around real fast. parsy.