DAVID CORN, conocido periodista estadounidense de izquierda (full disclosure: los dos pertenecemos al consejo editorial de Pajamas Media) suele ser razonable, pero en este post comete un error impropio de él:

George Bush went to a Dunkin' Donuts on Wednesday. No, this wasn't a Bill Clinton moment. The president was making a political point -about immigration. The two Iranian Americans who own this donut shop in Alexandria, Virginia, apparently cannot find the workers they need to keep churning out those circular sugar bombs. So, Bush said, Congress has to pass legislation that will allow illegal immigrants to become legal guest-workers.

Congress does need to deal with immigration. But there might be another solution to the Dunkin' Donuts problem--raising the minimum wage. If work at fast-food shops paid more, there would be more fast-food workers. Isn't that how the market works?

¿Desde cuando subir el salario mínimo por ley demostraría que el mercado funciona? Vamos a ver: si hay algo que une a defensores y detractores del salario mínimo es que es una restricción a la libertad de mercado: aquéllos la ven como algo negativo y éstos como algo deseable, pero en cualquier caso como una restricción.