[Olog-hai]

A mandate to pay $15 per hour as a minimum wage will send a lot of businesses under, so that would mean any new tax revenue not materializing and existing tax revenue drying up. Cap and trade kills yet more businesses, as do fines (think A-Treat Soda). Even if the federal government cut back spending drastically, there's no way to plug that hole.

[Rusty0604]

I know, but the idiots in charge don’t understand unintended consequences.