Opinion: Instead of having workers claim and then prove discrimination, Kamala Harris wants the opposite: Companies would have to prove a negative—that they aren’t discriminating.
Presidential candidate Kamala Harris’s latest bid for progressive hearts begins with a laudable ideal: Men and women should receive equal pay for equal work. Who can disagree, even without mentioning that discrimination by sex is illegal? The trouble is that the California Senator goes on to propose that political commissars oversee salary decisions for roughly 80 million American workers.
Ms. Harris’s plan, which she released this month, first cites tendentious statistics. “Women who work full time,” it says, “are paid just...
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