Don’t agree. If the city raises the minimum wage the FIRST THING that will happen is a huge spike is “workers” no longer having any wage at all.
The politicians may be able to pass a law dictating (as dictators do) that employers MUST pay certain wages.
However, the political class has absolutely no power to dictate that anyone be an employer at all. Watch the parade of businesses leaving town and observe the darkened offices.
That’s a given, but I’m thinking they don’t have the power to make a small business pay any kind of a set wage at all, really. They do have the power to require set wages for city employees, city contractors and their employees, etc. but to an independent business? No, not as long as they fall within Federal requirements if they are applicable.