$25 per hour is around $50,000 per year. That would be an easy counter-offer to make the libs gulp deeply.
You want to make the amount absurd. Almost as absurd as a minimum wage in a free society. What right does the government have in telling me that I can not sell my labor below a certain price. Too many low info voters would not find $50K a year absurd. $150K a year is absurd to even the dumbest Obama voter.