Patrick Byrne

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Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne

That is the true origin of minimum wage laws passed that decade. The economic analysis of such laws is that they reduce the cost of discrimination to $0. When the cost of something falls, society consumes it more if it. This includes discrimination. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 14, 2023

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In 1931 Congress passed the Davis Bacon Act to shield Whites from Black competition. See this fine 1994 National Black Law Journal article: "The Davis-Bacon Act: Vestige of Jim Crow" https://t.co/0Ovz9GspJ1 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 14, 2023

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Nonetheless, the great tradition of Black excellence went on, though progress was slower than it would have been absent this Progressive opposition. Then came the "Golden Age" from Brown v Board to Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which revived Reconstructionism). — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 14, 2023