[stylin19a]

This is bill has the same stuff passed by the house in 2019.
the minimum wage is graduated until it hits 15 bucks and hour in 2025.

[Vaduz]

$8.50 hamburger
$25.00 car wash
$20.00 hair cut
Hang out of business sign on door.

Welcome to California

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Tens of thousands on the border now wanting to crash the border so they can work for far less than minimum wage, off the books at that!

[Dr. Franklin]

The minimum wage was intended to provide for a family of four with one parent working. Does this wage do that? In recent years, the Dems make a big deal of raising the minimum wage after it has already de facto increased for most every worker, and the new wage will affect few workers. Libertarians hate it. I have a different view. I prefer a constitutional amendment limiting the salary of Congress, judges, and POTUS to a fixed multiple of the federal minimum wage. I think most people would support that, but I won't hold my breath waiting for it to happen.

[The Pack Knight]

“Minimum wage” is a misnomer. Unless the government is going to guarantee employment, the actual minimum wage is always zero. All “minimum wage” laws accomplish is make it illegal to outlaw paid work for those whose labor is worth less than an arbitrary hourly rate.

[MV=PY]

Thomas Sowell:

There is no inherent reason why low-skilled or high-risk employees are any less employable than high-skilled, low-risk employees. Someone who is five times as valuable to an employer is no more or less employable than someone who is one-fifth as valuable, when the pay differences reflect their differences in benefits to the employer.

This is more than a theoretical point. Historically, lower skill levels did not prevent black males from having labor force participation rates higher than that of white males for every US Census from 1890 through 1930. Since then, the general growth of wage-fixing arrangements: minimum wage laws, labor unions, civil service pay scales, etc. has reversed that and made more and more blacks unemployable despite their rising levels of education and skills: absolutely and relative to whites.

In short, no one is employable or unemployable absolutely, but only relative to a given pay scale.

Thomas Sowell on the cruelty of minimum wage laws