What the Dims never consider is if you raise the minimum wage, “cheap” stuff is no longer going to be cheap, because businesses have to raise prices. Often manufacturers are forced to raise prices not by the buying public or by “greed” as the Dims would have you believe but by the distributors to double or triple what the costs could be.
This is because items need to sell a high volume to be “cheap” enough for distributors to sell, stock and distribute. If wages go up, prices on those items go up, both from production and distribution. Higher wages plus less sales mean more expensive items. Dims would have you believe that “just raising wages” fixes that. It doesn’t, it just makes the problem worse.
And higher gas/fuel prices mean higher food prices, and heating your home. Bread, eggs, meat (even the cheap stuff) and milk now cost more than gas and those are just staples.
A half gallon of skim milk I(YUCK colored water) is $2 store brand depending on your area in the country, which comes from the same dairy as the name brand. Ditto goes for plain whole wheat bread why should one be $1.25 and the name brand over $3?. Labels read about the same for ingredients and nutrition, I know I have to read the tiny printed junk for sodium and cholesterol info. Same goes for canned veggies and fruit. Margarine cost as much as butter now. And it’s not digestible nor does it taste good.