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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I find your hypotheticals really boring and pointless to respond to. I don’t care about some fantasy town or area in your mind. You ignore the fact that people will have more money to spend at more businesses and more businesses will open to meet the greater demand for products or services, so how am I supposed to take this seriously? As I said, let’s talk reality. If all you have is fantasies, that’s boring. Who cares? I can read a novel if I want a made up story and those are usually more entertaining.
And yes, I agree that a $15 national minimum wage is a bad idea. It should be $15 as a baseline, and higher in places where it doesn’t meet the cost of living. Cost of living in Mississippi is $15.66 I believe, and it’s the cheapest state in the US. Good benchmark. Let’s make it happen.
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A $15 min wage in Mississippi would cause businesses to close in some areas and people to lose their jobs. There is just not enough money in some local economies to absorb that increase.
If you are ok with that, then fine. But at that point it just seems like you are more concerned with wins for "progressive" ideas than actually benefitting people.