Raising the Minimum Wage is actually the dims' clever way of taking money from your hip pocket and mine to pay off their buddies in the Labor Unions, when they take those increases as justification to increase THEIR demands.
I'm not an economist, but I'd guess that every dollar of minimum wage increase winds up costing three times that amount in taxes and labor costs.
Then, if you factor in the long term costs in terms of chronically unemployed, underemployed or welfare cases that result from their lousy shell game, it makes Johnson's so-called War on Poverty look like a piker.
Did I mention that they're also trying to buy some more voter base for the next few elections as well?
"Did I mention that they're also trying to buy some more voter base for the next few elections as well?"
That is their primary reason behind anything they do.
Everything else is secondary.