How do you compete with 50 cent an hour Mexicans?
We won’t have a middle class.
How did America become the strongest, most prosperous country on earth? By the free market economy though the 19th century up until around 1920’s. The free flow of supply and demand in jobs and goods and services is what grows business and creates wealth and jobs.
Government interference in the economy has never and will never help.
Think about it. What does the minimum wage do? It artificially forces business to drive up prices, cut jobs, at some point causes business to look elsewhere where conditions are more favorable to run a cost-effective business.