Who cares most about you?

Each time the government regulates your choices, it attempts to sell the notion that it cares more about your well-being than you do. Minimum wage laws are said to protect workers from accepting wages that politicians argue are exploitative. AdvertisementThe government increasingly assumes responsibility not merely for protecting citizens from one another, but from themselves. Minimum wage laws not only create arbitrary barriers to employment; they ignore the interests of those they pretend to protect. The government has an indispensable role in protecting liberty, enforcing contracts, punishing crime, and defending the nation.