Art Laffer, the $75,000 consultant who helped shape Gov. Sam Brownback’s tax changes, called the federal minimum wage “the black teenage unemployment act.”

While on Fox News on Wednesday, Laffer said the minimum wage “makes no sense to me.”

He added, “I mean, honestly, it’s just the teenage — black teenage unemployment act, and this is the very groups that we need to have jobs and not be put out of work because of the minimum wage.”

Laffer argued that more teenagers would be hired if employers could pay them less than the $7.25 federal minimum.

His comments were made during a discussion on the possible extension of unemployment benefits for the long-term unemployed.

In 2012, Laffer, who is considered the father of supply-side economics, was hired by the Brownback administration for $75,000 for consulting work on the governor’s tax plan.

Laffer championed Brownback’s plans to cut income tax rates, eliminate credits and deductions and rely more heavily on the sales tax.

At the time, Laffer also supported Brownback’s plan to end the state portion of the Earned Income Tax Credit, which helps low-income, working Kansans. Later, Brownback backed off that proposal.