A minimum-wage law is, in reality, a law that makes it illegal for an employer to hire a person with limited skills.

I am a limited-government libertarian.

Politicians will always spend every penny of tax raised and whatever else they can get away with.

In response to a suggestion that total free trade would end in cheaper foreign products flooding the market and causing unemployment.

There is no logical basis for the prohibition of marijuana. $7.7 billion is a lot of money, but that is one of the lesser evils. Our failure to successfully enforce these laws is responsible for the deaths of thousands of people in Colombia. I haven't even included the harm to young people. It's absolutely disgraceful to think of picking up a 22-year-old for smoking pot. More disgraceful is the denial of marijuana for medical purposes.

What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.

The high rate of unemployment among teenagers, and especially black teenagers, is both a scandal and a serious source of social unrest. Yet it is largely a result of minimum wage laws. We regard the minimum wage law as one of the most, if not the most, anti-black laws on the statute books.