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Posted online September 10, 2006 | 11:00 pm

“If we could make everyone rich by legislating it, we would. Why stop at $6.50 an hour? Why not legislate everyone to make $50,000 a year?”

—Missouri State University economic professor David Mitchell, on the minimum wage issue. Click here for the story.[[In-content Ad]]

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