During the Obama years, I shared a cartoon strip that cleverly makes the point that some people will choose not to work if they can get enough goodies from the government.
That Wizard-of-Id parody has been viewed more than 56,000 times, which suggests many readers also thought it was worth sharing.
But it obviously hasn’t been shared often enough with the crowd in Washington. Politicians have created a welfare state that penalizes work and rewards dependency.
Especially now that there are bonus payments for staying unemployed. Which makes it hard to businesses to find workers.
Our friends on the left, however, think there’s a solution to this problem.
In his column for the New York Times, David Leonhardt says there is not a labor shortage because employers can simply raise wages.
The idea that the United States suffers from a labor shortage is fast becoming conventional wisdom. But…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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