@breadsmasher Nope! I'm advocating for policies that would lower the production costs of the goods that are being served, as well as inflation and regulatory costs and fees like taxes, providing greater margins and stability for businesses, incentivizing them to voluntarily raise employee wages.

Increasing minimum wages reduces the value of everyone else's money. Companies never take a hit from these increases. They always pass on the cost into the product or they shut down locations.

Every time government increases the minimum wage, the poverty line goes up as well. It's turns into a never ending inflationary cycle.

You can't just increase the minimum payment, because at the end of the day, the money has to equal some type of value. When the government forces a value, it reduces the value of everyone else's money.