Democratic economists   American economists strongly support the Democratic Party with their views on policy being largely in accordance with the Democratic platform  This is the biggest load of crap I have heard in my life When it comes to economic policy economists almost always identify with Republicans Examples Higher taxes create a deadweight loss This is economically inefficient Price floors eg the minimum wage also restrict market efficiency and should thus be eliminated Democrats tend to prefer a higher minimum wage Republicans like economists generally dislike welfare Trade is also favored in economics by a large majority Republicans voted to pass the NAFTA and Democrats voted against it I wonder what an economist would say about socialized health care  I suggest the entire section about economists be removed as it is misinforming and contains no information valuable to this article