[albie]

"This will be disastrous to many small businesses".

...raising the minimum wage to $7.25 will not be disastrous. At present, very few companies, fast food etc pay less than $7.00. This whole minimum wage fiasco is the "FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS IN OUR 1st HUNDRED HOURS" (said in deeply toned echo) because it's popular. People are truly too stupid to realize how worthless it is. Dems get a quick thumbs up. THEN they can really sock it to us. Any minimum wage is wrong. It's wrong for government to tell a private business owner how to operate, but we have so many under-acheivers/losers it's a feather in the dem hat.

[AmishDude]

$7.25/hr would kill most state governments because it would price union road construction costs through the stratosphere.

[RedStateRocker]

Correct. I think this is one issue where conservatives get their heads handed back to them. One can quote Friedman and von Meises all freaking DAY and all it does is lose the votes of everyone who is NOT a small businessman, the GOP has to deal with it, just like the smarter Democrats have realized that, however they may feel about guns it's either STFU or lose elections.