Subsidized public universities are paid by all taxpayers of a state but mainly used by middle and upper-middle class people. Studies have been done the amount of money poor people contribute to those universities is much less than the benefit they get from it. The intentions were good but the results are screwed up.
Minimum wage laws have primarily benefited the wealthy. It effects small businesses way more than the large ones. For instance, Wal-Mart can easily pay raised minimum wages just because it can. Its shopper shop at Wal-Mart, plus a lot of its customers get paid at minimum wage level. However, the most important factor is that it is large with huge profit base and more regulations, minimum wage or others, help it to beat small competition.
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All the same, they support minimum wage and more regulations which makes Waltons even richer.
You asked who would do such a thing. It's not that these policymakers intentionally tries to harm middle class and favor the wealthy (I am sure some do but that's another topic) but the end result of those policies harm them. I am in favor of helping people, but the government is the worst organizrfment agencies and you can imagine the results of these regulations Eric Schlosser, the author of Fast Food Nation, points to a couple of examples:
The current chief of staff at the Agriculture Department used to be the beef industry’s chief lobbyist. The person who headed the Food and Drug Administration until recently used to be an executive at the National Food Processors Association.
(The article was written in 2006)
These regulations and their enforcer agencies were put in place to protect middle class consumer but they are influenced by the wealthy to get even richer by restricting competition and effectively running their businesses as they please. The intentions were good but the results are screwed