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The refusal to use common sense is criminal, if you raise wages then costs must go up proportionately ,i>as well as taxes. So those that you raised the minimum wage for are only better off by a minuscule amount as their sudden wealth is eaten up by taxes and higher costs and lost jobs because the employer has to maintain his income level and can only increase prices so far.

The other losers in this liberal largess are those on a fixed income, like Social Security or Disability that don't get any increase to offset those higher market prices. Of course liberals will insure that the illegals getting free money for all their anchor babies will get increases.

So who benefits? The government with higher tax collection and the Unions whose members wages are tied to the minimum wage. Who are the biggest losers? The elderly and every hourly wage worker that through hard work and experience pulled themselves up to the $15 per hour and above level that have their living standard lowered by socialist politicians.

Oh, the other thing that happens? When those that are boosted up to $15 realize that they are actually worse off because costs have gone up all around them, their job just got a lot harder at less hours(actually the lucky ones) or they lost their jobs because they were marginal workers and the employer can no longer afford to keep low producers on the clock.

And that's twenty five years of real world experience with minimum wage increase in the world of low skill employee management.