So earners' mother's don't have to subsist on dog food.
Except when all is said and done the price off dog food will go up and again she will be back to dog food.
You can't raise the water on one side of the bathtub. Water seeks its own level. As does the free market. Try and raise this wages on this side and unless you put in price freezes it just goes ahead and seeks its own level again.
It's not a free-market tool. It's socialism. It kills jobs and it kills small business, which is the backbone of the economy, and it attracts illegal aliens because all wages go up relative to productivity.
The earner's mothers don't have to subsist on dog food, or they wouldn't if they'd planned a little better and/or their kids (FAMILY!) were more generous or better planners themselves.