Congress should abolish the federal program, leaving states to decide whether to create a substitute, experiment with different approaches, or dispense with the system altogether. Congress should also roll back federal regulation of the labor market. The minimum wage destroys jobs, since it prices out of work anyone who lacks sufficient education, experience, and skills to earn the minimum. Similar in effect is the Davis-Bacon Act, winch requires payment of union scale wages for federally funded construction projects. Restrictions on overtime and other work conditions are equally misguided.
Different workers prefer different benefit packages.
There is no reason for Washington to decide, say, the overtime pay rate. Nor should government promote labor unions any more than corporations. Especially when regulations purporting to help working people simultaneously interfere with their right to choose the benefits they prefer and unfairly penalize companies in order to boost organized labor. Supreme Court decision, Communications Workers of America vs. Beck , which grants workers the right to a refund of any union dues used for political purposes. Today most labor unions flout the law, collecting dues with the implicit aid of the federal government for partisan use.