I'd like to see the minimum wage be raised, but not too quickly, so that people who have full time (or nearly so) jobs don't need government handouts.
RE: A really good question that isn’t answered here is “what was the minimum wage raised from?” If the minimum wage were raised to $10 an hour, it would be more realistic and applicable to the discussion of what the minimum wage should be.
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On May 1, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced he had brokered a deal to raise the city’s minimum wage for all workers from $9.32 to $15 an hour, the highest in the country.
You miss the economics of the minimum wage. ANY increase in the minimum wage costs jobs and benefits to the workers. The higher the increase, the more people lose their jobs and benefits.
P.S. Also, a higher minimum wage means a bigger incentive to hire illegals and pay them a lower wage under the table.
raising the minimum wage accomplishes nothing.
the price of everything simply goes up and those people still employed who are making more lose some or all assistance they are getting. When all the dust clears, they could conceivably have less total income they before and be able to buy less with each dollar.
In other words, you support stupidity and liberalism as long as it happens slowly.
Listen up. The REAL minimum wage is ZERO. These folks are finding that out. It is entirely un-conservatinve to support any minimum wage (i.e. a wage level that is artificially set by bureaucrats). Let the market decide what a job is worth and we will all be better off, or we can go full stupid and turn it over to the politicians and watch in confusion as the law of unintended consequences goes to work.