Of fear mongering and false narratives

The proverbial bovine fecal matter has been piling up recently. According to columnist Frank Watson, in his Sept. 26 piece, the minimum wage was never intended to be a living wage, but an income for “untested, unskilled labor.”

Meanwhile, Don Brunell complained in his Sept. 12 column about the skyrocketing national debt, blaming it on so-called entitlement programs and government overspending, noting “taxes must be affordable.”

Both perspectives are patently misguided, if not outright misleading and false.

First, some history: the minimum wage was first established by the Fair Labor Standards...