The government has no right to set a minimum or maximum hourly pay rate. All other questions are irrelevant.
It seems the government(s) may indeed MANDATE the minimum wage you WILL pay, but they forgot something sorta basic...
The government CANNOT mandate that you have any employees or tell you how many to have.
Exactly. ANY minimum wage is pure, textbook fascism.
“The government has no right to set a minimum or maximum hourly pay rate. All other questions are irrelevant.”
You are totally right on that. I have NEVER believed in the minimum wage concept. I think it is a shame that the current minimum has nowhere near the purchasing power of the 1963 minimum of $1.25 an hour which is slightly more than one sixth of the current minimum but my question to those who still believe in the minimum wage is, “Why not raise it to a thousand dollars an hour, why mess around asking for fifteen if you really are silly enough to think it accomplishes something?” While we are at it why not just pass a law that says all who reside in these united states shall be wealthy beyond imagining and have all their wishes fulfilled?