[donna]

Doesn't a higher minimum wage lower the earned income credit? And thus it is really switching the welfare burden from the federal government to small businesses?

Earned income and adjusted gross income (AGI) must each be less than:

If filing...	Qualifying Children Claimed
	Zero	One	Two	Three or more
Single, Head of Household or Widowed	$14,820	$39,131	$44,454	$47,747
Married Filing Jointly	$20,330	$44,651	$49,974	$53,267

[P.O.E.]

Easy solution: Have a bunch of illegitimate kids and dump them on the state. Or claim multiple IDs from multiple residences.

See? Easy!