Logan, your argument sounds like a justification for fully-socialized healthcare, not a justification against raising the minimum wage. And how many "Mom and Pop" stores are affected by the "50 employee minimum"? That's not just a strawman, that's a red herring.
BA, the labor market is oversaturated because we've chosen to outsource most of our manufacturing to other countries, leaving substantially fewer jobs here for people to do. If you want to fix that, you'll have to bring the jobs back - which will raise the prices of the goods that are manufactured, becauwe the minimum wages here are higher than they are in most of Asia (where the goods are currently manufactured).
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
BA, the labor market is oversaturated because we've chosen to outsource most of our manufacturing to other countries, leaving substantially fewer jobs here for people to do. If you want to fix that, you'll have to bring the jobs back - which will raise the prices of the goods that are manufactured, becauwe the minimum wages here are higher than they are in most of Asia (where the goods are currently manufactured).
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012