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My recommendation is to focus on ideas (and facts) rather than identity.

I think that reading a “minimum wage” law would show something like “one cannot pay less than X dollars per hour.” Literally, the law outlaws low paying jobs.

What would a law have to state in order to “raise the minimum wage.” I don’t think anyone knows.

Here’s a start. All workers currently making less than X dollars per hour, now make X dollars per hour. They cannot be let go. You must hire as many entry level workers annually as you hired last year.

If such a law has ever been written, it has not stood the test of time.

Government can claim to raise the minimum wage. Government can claim to repeal laws of supply and demand, or the law of gravity.

What can government really do? Well, they can outlaw low-paying jobs. I think of that as cutting off the bottom rung of the ladder of success.

Probably most politicians don’t realize the harm they are doing. Some kind of understand, but are in denial - it’s just good politics to “raise the minimum wage.” A few may realize the harm they are doing but do so out of political necessity or choice. Some vote against outlawing low-paying jobs, and are attacked as “heartless.”