Gotta say, why not $20, or even $40 minimum? Sorry, we can't mandate minimum wages in a "free" market/society. No we're not anywhere near free now.
No, we don't won't people making minimum wage. We won't them doing their best to provide goods and services and earning the most they can honestly earn. Then let them keep what they earn. But they can't keep it if politicians and bureaucrats are spending it all.
I don't know much, but I do know America is in a tremendous debt hole for generations and we can't get out without God's help and we need His help deperately!!
The "why not $20" argument is moot right now, if we are allowing unlimited immigration. If blue states raise their minimum wage to $15/hr, and the red states don't, where will the immigrants move to to get jobs? Are they worth $15/hr? No, they will settle in red states with lower minimum wages. Then they will start voting, and soon the red states will be Venezuelan bolivar states.
Raise the minimum wage, and replace the income tax with sales taxes in red states. This will raise the cost of living in these states, and they will move on to blue states.
These things are under state control, not federal. Rather than just complaining, this is something they can do.