Dear Editor:
There should be no minimum wage. If the government controls wages then why don't they raise the minimum wage to $30 per hour or higher? That is the point, is it not? The government does not control wages because the market controls wages. If the government controlled wages there would be no market and we would have a communist type society. Is that what we want? If someone is in a minimum wage job and they want more money then they have choices, do they not? They can attempt to gain a promotion or they can get more education or they can just quit and look for a better job.
Doing any of those things would be preferable to the government controlling the labour market.
Many people do not understand how our system works and that is a failure of our education system. It seems many teachers do not understand how our system works either. They want more money for doing the same job and they want the government to provide it, but the government does not have any money. The government has to take the money from other people who have earned it and give it to the teachers. The highly educated teachers do not understand this simple concept.
Alan S. Wilson
North Vancouver
