If the national minimum wage goes to $15/hr. full time workers will pay at least some taxes.
I saw some stories from Seattle that when the workers got their raises and found out that would lose some benefits, they wanted to work fewer hours.
... prepare to see a wave of illegal immigration to make what's happening now look mild.
An unskilled Mexican teenager living in a cardboard box home with parents and three siblings would be insane NOT to try to get up to the U.S. and take on a part-time job as a dishwasher. You can bet your bottom dollar that IF that illegal Mexican gets that job, he'll show up every day whereas the entitlement-minded American teen would blow it off if his boss wanted him to work on Prom might.