States HAVE the power to raise their minimum wages. There is nothing stopping NY or CA or IL from committing economic suicide and raising their minimum-wages to $15, or $100 bucks an hour.
Once again, Republicans are accepting the Left's premise and then offering a compromise which will advance the leftist agenda more, while Republicans will beat their chests and brag to conservatives how they "fought" to lower the $15 to something like $12 or $13 an hour.
I have never understood where in the US Constitution it says government can define the terms and conditions of a labor contract.
Where is it defined that a government, state, local, federal, can dictate the terms of financial compensation to an individual?
I am seriously asking...is this settled Constitutional law??
Is there case history where this has been defined by the Supreme Court?