The Occasional Observer

If only we could convince the usually well-meaning liberals to think about their policies all the way to inevitable conclusions, they might understand many of the policies they push actually have the opposite of the intended consequences. Take Mark Krawiec as an example. He lost his job, and instead of milking unemployment for as long as he could, he took whatever job he could get. It was a temporary job, so when it ended, he had to go back onunemployment. Unfortunately for Mark, he ended up getting less than half of what he previously received on unemployment as a consequence.

Minimum wage is in the same category, because it assumes businesses will employee the same number of people at the new higher wage. We'll be able to add the new healthcare plan very soon.

Notice I qualified liberals in the first sentence with well-meaning. There are some that know very well the consequences and have a much different (political) goal in mind.