(December 1, 2012 at 9:07 am)Daniel Wrote: Yes it certainly should, and the USA has a terrible minimum wage at present. That said, I still don't think it's a US Federal issue, because it affects the individual states far more. Richer states should be able to afford much higher minimum wages than pooer states, etc.
Generally, that's what already happens. Local minimum wage laws in places like San Fransisco or New York City have the minimum wage set much higher than the federal minimum wage. The reasoning behind it makes sense, too: it costs more to live in places like that then it does to live in suburban Oklahoma.
That being said, I'd love to see the minimum wage set to index based on inflation/cost of living and for that index to be somewhat regional. But I'm one of those leftist, pinko socialists.
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