all minimum wage laws should be abolished

If passing minimum wage laws are the secret to raising wages, then why doesn't the government make everybody rich by setting the wage to a million dollars? Would this solve poverty, or would this make everyone -- who produces less then the million dollar minimum wage -- unemployable? The truth is that those who don't produce enough to merit the minimum wage will become unemployed by such laws, and those who do produce more then the minimum wage don't need such laws. The people who get screwed the most by minimum wage laws are the least employable of society. When the minimum wage goes up businesses need to reduce costs in order to stay competitive and usually do this by laying off the least qualified employees.

If a person wants to work for four dollars an hour and an employer wants to hire somebody for four dollars an hour then they ought to be allowed to make this transaction withour being called criminals.