In his recent editorial, Jay Bookman points to hypocrisy in those that don't support an increase in the minimum wage, but support corporate welfare. Bookman is still showing intellectual dishonesty, but I get what he is saying.

It's dishonest because he classifies those support corporate welfare in the legislature a supporters of the free market. If any elected official supports corporate welfare, they cannot claim to be supportive of a free market. Either he has a misunderstanding of capitalism (which I have no doubt of) or he is purposefully deceiving his readers (again, which I have no doubt of).

I completely agree with the notion that a government has no place providing welfare to corporations, however, it is my belief that government shouldn't be setting standards for a minimum wage either, nor providing welfare to individuals. Although, Bookman would have you believe that we want fourth graders working in abhorrent conditions for two dollars an hour. That simply isn't true and it isn't capitalism.

Bookman says something here that is just incredibly stupid, "Of course, the notion that the free market is an unassailably accurate gauge of a person's economic value is nonsense." Are you serious? Of course it is. Remember the days when IT administrators were hard to come by? Businesses had to be competitive with wages and benefits packages to lure a competent worker in that field. Now that the market is flooded with them the demand has dropped and entry level salaries have come down. That is the market at work. It is supply and demand. Any suggestion otherwise is ridiculous.