> Wages often go over or close to the minimum anyway, due to market forces, and do so without costly bureaucracy/enforcement/taxation/distortion By "minimum",

> Wages often go over or close to the minimum anyway, due to market forces, and do so without costly bureaucracy/enforcement/taxation/distortion By "minimum", do you mean "statutory minimum"? I'm not sure what the policy implication of this argument would be otherwise – an argument against wage and hour enforcement?