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The bishops support the minimum wage and many other government programs.
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"Some" bishops support the minimum although few will claim we have a moral obligation to support it, although I once had a bishop who, astonishingly enough, made just that claim.
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The U.S. Catholic bishops and I have major philosophical differences! The minimum wage is bad economics.
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I agree with your understanding, but the bigger issue is that neither position can be considered a moral choice. It is neither moral nor immoral to support either an increase in the minimum wage or its elimination. One choice will surely lead to a better or worse result but being wrong in believing which is better is not a sin, and this is why the bishops have no business whatever in sounding forth on this subject. It is, as you said, an economic issue. It is not, as the bishops imply, a moral one.
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