A minimum wage is always going to be a minimum wage. It will always have the same buying power. We see that every time. Wages go up and the cost of goods and services go up.
It does one other thing. It eliminates jobs and makes it more difficult for an unskilled and somewhat unemployable person to get a job.
Sadly, this clamor for higher minimums is never going to solve anything. In fact, it makes it slightly worse. The buying power is slightly reduced with each hike. Eliminate minimum wage and the many regulations regarding employee rights and watch the economy rebound.
Sadly, people in government simply are generally poorly equipped intellectually to understand any of this, so things will not change for the better. They will progressively get worse at the hands of progressives.
Dennis Carman
Georgia, Vermont