Generic Contention The aff violates free market principles restricting the autonomy of companies and – some low-wage workers who would get laid off or who find jobs now can’t Sennholz 05 Hans F. Sennholz, Professor Emeritus Grove City College is an Adjunct Scholar of the Mises Institute, Repeal the Minimum Wage, 12-25-05 [PDI] To alleviate minimum-wage is to restore freedom in the labor market; it would unemployment permit the cost of labor to readjust to labor productivity and offer employment to every young man and woman willing and ready to work. A free labor market would welcome young people, which would improve labor skill and not only exhort and restore the spirit of work but also know-how. The labor productivity of American youth soon would rise and exceed the ominous minimum levels that presently condemn millions to idleness. Freedom has a thousand charms even in the labor market. Government control over business is the antithesis of free enterprise and private ownership Von Mises 05 Ludwig von Mises, famous economist of the for Austrian school, “Planning Freedom” MAY 31, 2005 [PDI] is used as a synonym for totalitarian The term "planning" mostly socialism, communism, and authoritarian and economic management. Sometimes only the German pattern of socialism—Zwangswirtschaft—is called planning, while the term socialism proper is reserved for the Russian pattern of outright socialization and bureaucratic operation of all plants, shops, and farms. At any planning in this sense means all-around planning by the government and enforcement rate, of these plans by the police power. government control of business. is Planning in this sense means full It the antithesis of free enterprise, private initiative, private ownership of the means of production, market economy, and the price system. Planning and capitalism are utterly incompatible. is conducted according to the government's Within a system of planning, production orders, not according to the plans of capitalists and entrepreneurs eager to profit by best filling the wants of the consumers.
Generic Contention The aff violates free market principles – restricting the autonomy of companies and some low-wage workers who would get laid off or who can’t find jobs now Sennholz 05 Hans F. Sennholz, Professor Emeritus Grove City College is an Adjunct Scholar of the Mises Institute, Repeal the Minimum Wage, 12-25-05 [PDI] To alleviate minimum-wage unemployment is to restore freedom in the labor market; it would permit the cost of labor to readjust to labor productivity and offer employment to every young man and woman willing and ready to work. A free labor market would welcome young people, which not only would exhort and restore the spirit of work but also improve labor skill and know-how. The labor productivity of American youth soon would rise and exceed the ominous minimum levels that presently condemn millions to idleness. Freedom has a thousand charms even in the labor market. Government control over business is the antithesis of free enterprise and private ownership Von Mises 05 Ludwig von Mises, famous economist of the Austrian school, “Planning for Freedom” MAY 31, 2005 [PDI] The term "planning" is mostly used as a synonym for socialism, communism, and authoritarian and totalitarian economic management. Sometimes only the German pattern of socialism—Zwangswirtschaft—is called planning, while the term socialism proper is reserved for the Russian pattern of outright socialization and bureaucratic operation of all plants, shops, and farms. At any rate, planning in this sense means all-around planning by the government and enforcement of these plans by the police power. Planning in this sense means full government control of business. It is the antithesis of free enterprise, private initiative, private ownership of the means of production, market economy, and the price system. Planning and capitalism are utterly incompatible. Within a system of planning, production is conducted according to the government's orders, not according to the plans of capitalists and entrepreneurs eager to profit by best filling the wants of the consumers.
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