Quote:At $7.25 an hour you might hire a young guy to sweep out your warehouse.  Sure you, might.  And you might not.   The fact is the solution you'd think of at $15.00/hour or $10.75/hour is likely the one you're going to think of at $7.25/hour.  You'll just make it someone else's job, and not pay someone extra.  Because most businesses aren't in the business of giving jobs to people because they feel charitable.  They have jobs because they need people working.  They don't pay people to sit around and do nothing.  That's not smart business.  


Sure, a minimum wage increase eliminates some jobs.  But a minimum wage increase is necessary to at the bare minimum keep up with inflation.  It doesn't matter if you aren't "supposed" to live on it.  A lot of people are.  People who have degrees, because they can't find jobs and have to make a living somehow.  And these aren't people with "puppetering" degrees as some would have you believe.  Many of them have useful degrees, and graduated with good marks.