[Gabrial]

Use of robotics would accelerate and replace jobs. Personally I would prefer a Big Mac prepared by a machine over one prepared by a germ infested pimpled teenager.

[KenD]

Actually, I've just recently been to Sydney, Australia where the minimum wage is nearly $20/hour. It is very clear that a high minimum wage, in part, causes prices of everything to go up. So, what has happened there is, prices have gone up to the point where the CURRENT argument THERE is that "The minimum wage isn't a living wage, we need to raise it."
They are chasing a phantom. NO amount of increase in minimum wage will make middle class families out of those in the lower economic strata, ONLY hard work, promotions and raises will do that.
Another impact of the high minimum wage where I was is that the cost of a home is WAY above what young families can afford... that is if they wanted to buy the pretty poor housing I saw... old, run down 2 bedroom 1 bath homes hear train tracks for $480,000.
Why-oh-why can't we learn from what is going on in other countries?

[TangoLimaSierra]

Use of robotics would accelerate and replace jobs. Personally I would prefer a Big Mac prepared by a machine over one prepared by a germ infested pimpled teenager.

That is some major truthery.