While minimum wage increased this year in North Carolina to $6.15 an hour, the U. S. Congress is moving to enact another hike in the hourly minimum wage to $7.25. Larry Reed, President of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, decided another lecture on minimum wage from an economist was not needed, but maybe an “old-fashioned” Socratic inquisition might be another way to state the obvious. Read the possible interaction with Socrates and a member of Congress, it is worth your time!