...as well as helping unions as many have contracts that adjust for minimum wage hikes.
All in all, the poor and middle class get screwed while the politicians stay on their gravy train.
We are ending up separated into three layers: The 1%, an upper middle class working either for the government directly or through a contractor (which in both cases lets the government determine which races and genders get work), and everyone else who gets to make coffee, flip burgers, or wash the cars for the first two...