Micro-management = Macro-aggresssion
"I'm sorry, sir. That option is no longer available"
"Okay then, I'll have a cheeseburger and fries".
"That will be $12.50 sir"
"WTF?!!"
This will be the reaction from Millenials and liberals everywhere. Expect to hear it over and over again as they whine and complain about it relentlessly soon.
Expect everything to rise in price by the percentage difference between the current minimum wage and the projected one. Expect mass migration out of OR.
I just love it when bureaucrats have enough hubris to think they can outperform a mechanism that solves a billion simultaneous equations every 10 nanoseconds.
Order from the robot.
Other than constitutional amendments which prohibit the states from doing things, and as long as a state employs a republican form of government (4.4), theres nothing stopping a given state from using its 10th Amendment-protected power to practice social Darwinism and shoot both feet off.
I suppose that the country can always remove stars from the flag for such states.
Maybe this is why Trump is already up 2 points in an Oregon poll
Separate but equal
This movie deserves some popcorn.
Many discount stores, grocery stores and fast food restaurants in western tourist areas pay that much anyway. No big deal. No real change. Let those states do what they want. The federal wage is still low and will remain low.