Ah, minimum wage...aka, legalized extortion. Businesses being told what the value of the work is worth is exactly that. Instead of work being compensated for what it's worth (for instance, an airline pilot has many more responsibilities and duties than the guy on the grill line at the local fast food joint, which means the airline pilot SHOULD make more money than the grill guy) we're saying that every job is worth a certain amount of compensation, whether it is or not.

I think it would push forward the trend of automation that's already happening. McDonald's would find a way to run a store with fewer people. There might be no non-automated grocery lines. Banks might require you to go to the Tyme machine (more advanced Tyme machines with more functionality) with no option for a teller. Most of the people who used to do those jobs would not have jobs.

Raising this evil benchmark (yes, I said it) has one purpose - to dupe the sheeple into thinking they're getting more, not less, money, and at the same time destroy the value of American Money, so it matches the gold they have in Ft. Knox...

Once the value of the fiat drops enough, it will be only logical that paper money would be rather unworkable, coinage not worth the plastic they'll be making it out of, so everyone will be on the HillaryCard... It is the only way you can have inflation worse than Zimbwabe or the Weimar Mark and have a workable system...

Of course, then they will tell you what you can and cannot purchase, track you for prosecution or praise, and control you. And give you $30 of their fake dollars an hour. So you can spend $200 on your Whopper, Fries, and a Coke.

Back when I was a kid, and the Benchmark Minimum (Ill just call it what it is... B.M.) was a couple bucks an hour, coffee was a dime for the good stuff, you could fill a grocery bag with $5 and have change, and a dollar was worth about 20 of the current ones. Not much different than my grandparent's day.

Sorry this was long... but until we kill this "raise the minimum wage" sheep dope, and bring back the value of money, we're on the way to Weimar Amerika. Courtesy of the elect.

The Big Macs will be subsidized with increased tax dollar...and for those with cash EBT (food stamps) will also be able to pay for it.