[Conservativegreatgrandma]

Why the heck don't Republicans learn how to talk to the public? The minimum wage is a lousy idea. What a business offers to pay a prospective worker and what the worker agrees to work for is of no business of the governments. The only interest it is of governments is to enforce the contract between the two parties.

This is a matter of freedom. Government never makes a situation better, only worse.

There are many other practical reasons not to raise the minimum wage. Raising the minimum wage hurts the very people they purport to help.

Do Republicans think the American people are too stupid to understand the truth? They may be right.

[muawiyah]

The functional minimum wage in this area is about $9 an hour.

Raising the federal minimum wage to a higher level isn't going to affect much around here.

BTW, when you have a high functional minimum wage that means the employers are probably going to have to give up drug tests as well to get employees.

Also, the rest of your comment is simply esoteric theoretical musings in the face of a high functional minimum wage.