The correct minimum wage is zero if you want to solidify the country club Republican vote and to forever forgo becoming the working class party. If so then by all means promote the idea no minimum wage. If the Republicans get behind an increase in the min wage where are the country clubbers going to go?
You posed a different question. What should be and what we can get passed ate two different things. Since we have a law, as ungrounded in the constitution as it is, we should pass what ever minimum, minimum wage bill we can get.
Worrying that an inflation adjusted minimum isn’t growing, should not be a basis for change.
We already have a zero minimum wage. It’s called an internship.
Anyone with half a brain should see a giant red flag in all this when the increase in the minimum wage is viewed in the context of the OTHER elements of the leftist agenda in the U.S. The whole thing is a farce and will inevitably result in a collapse of our entire social order. Just look at ALL The things they’re pushing here, dude:
1. Raise the minimum wage to $15/hour — even for workers who don’t produce $15/hour of value for their work.
2. Force employers to pay for health insurance — so the $15/hour worker now costs $18-$20 per hour.
3. Flood the country with illegal immigrants — who will simply undercut the $15/hour worker anyway.
4. Adopt a “universal basic income” — to pay people $15/hour even if they don’t work anyway, and even if they are illegal aliens.
This has nothing to do with “country club Republicans.” It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that this is going to be an absolute disaster.