Make the minimum wage $20.00/hr and they will be happy........
As a former employer, I can say that by the time you pay a wage, a social security contribution equal to the wage-earner's contribution, unemployment tax, pension fund contribution, and health insurance, you have nearly paid enough to hire another entire worker (sans those contributions).
If you raise the minimum wage, you are going to create LESS jobs, not more (as you will be further hiking all those other payments which are dependent upon the amount of the wage)
They will be happy until all the prices for goods and services triple. Then they will be screaming that they can't make ends meet on just $20 an hour!
Hey, I want $100/hr for minimum wage here in Calif!
Thus we can instantly create a society of affluence and wealth, eliminating not only poverty but the middle class.
We will all be wealthy elites.
Wonder if it would affect prices at Burger King though.