If we want free trade with china etc... we will have to kill min wage PLUS and this is even more IMPORTANT, KILL the OVER REGULATION of Businesses and Individuals by the federal beer-o-crap-cies.
I vaguely remember reading that BO’S admin was passing an avg of 42 pages of business regs a day during his first term.
If we kill the regulation and the taxation of business the minimum wage will be pretty much irrelevant unless the resulting BOOM induces the pols to jack it up to $25 or so. If we combine all three measures we will have a full employment boom to surpass the Reagan Economy and the wage scale will rise rapidly. The minimum wage pols will have to work overtime to keep the legal minimum above the market lowest rates.