Why $15?
Why not $25? How about $40? How about $80
I mean. . . at $80/ hour a family has a decent change to buy a home and even pay it off some day, at least in a rural town.
The answer is obvious: at $80, nobody makes coffee. How about $79? $78? Where, exactly is that cut line.
You can sniff farts all you want, but as expenses increase, the chances of a small business to fail increase-- there IS no cut line. Every penny has a small effect, every dollar a large one. If you think running a small business is easy, or that every penny doesn't matter, then you've never done it. You can form it in the language of moral outrage if you want: "Oh, the poor impoverished working man! Oh mean whitie." But money doesn't care about race-- if it ain't there, it ain't there.
The caveat to this is that the increase in wages isn't paralleled by an increase in overall prosperity. But that depends on money from outside-- investment, or payment for goods and services, or charity, or government economic stimulus.
But if you inject money into the region directly, or in wages for municipal projects and so on, then you don't really NEED an enforced minimum wage. Nor does race or any other demographic category other than income have anything do to with it.
Why not $25? How about $40? How about $80
I mean. . . at $80/ hour a family has a decent change to buy a home and even pay it off some day, at least in a rural town.
The answer is obvious: at $80, nobody makes coffee. How about $79? $78? Where, exactly is that cut line.
You can sniff farts all you want, but as expenses increase, the chances of a small business to fail increase-- there IS no cut line. Every penny has a small effect, every dollar a large one. If you think running a small business is easy, or that every penny doesn't matter, then you've never done it. You can form it in the language of moral outrage if you want: "Oh, the poor impoverished working man! Oh mean whitie." But money doesn't care about race-- if it ain't there, it ain't there.
The caveat to this is that the increase in wages isn't paralleled by an increase in overall prosperity. But that depends on money from outside-- investment, or payment for goods and services, or charity, or government economic stimulus.
But if you inject money into the region directly, or in wages for municipal projects and so on, then you don't really NEED an enforced minimum wage. Nor does race or any other demographic category other than income have anything do to with it.
