Do you think there are ANY detrimental effects to raising the minimum wage?
Why don’t you explain them to me?
It's a simple question. Why are you dodging it? Think about that.
If you want to make a point about the evils of minimum wage....make it
Don’t expect me to do it for you
It's seriously a very simple question. You either recognize that there are detrimental effects of minimum wages laws, or you don't. I'm not asking you to prove it one way or another. I just want to understand what you're advocating. Are you saying that we should raise minimum wage despite the negative impact, or are you saying there will be no negative impact? If you're saying there is no negative impact, then why in the world wouldn't we raise it until we're all content?
I'm not trying to "trick" you. Just trying to understand your position. Do you understand it?
You have yet to identify a negative impact
The reality is minimum wage workers are a very small percentage of the work force. They are primarily young, uneducated, and unmarried, and work in the hospitality and leisure industry, despite what the Dems would have you believe.
https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2017/pdf/home.pdf
2017, 80.4 million workers age 16 and older in the United States were paid at hourly rates, representing 58.3 percent of all wage and salary workers. Among those paid by the hour, 542,000 workers earned exactly the prevailing federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. About 1.3 million had wages below the federal minimum. Together, these 1.8 million workers with wages at or below the federal minimum made up 2.3 percent of all hourly paid workers.
The following are highlights from the 2017 data:
Age. Minimum wage workers tend to be young. Although workers under age 25 represented only about one-fifth of hourly paid workers, they made up about half of those paid the federal minimum wage or less. Among employed teenagers (ages 16 to 19) paid by the hour, about 8 percent earned the minimum wage or less, compared with about 1 percent of workers age 25 and older. (See tables 1 and 7.)
Gender. Among workers who were paid hourly rates in 2017, about 3 percent of women and about 2 percent of men had wages at or below the prevailing federal minimum. (See table 1.)
Race and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity. The percentage of hourly paid workers with wages at or below the federal minimum differed little among the major race and ethnicity groups. About 3 percent of African American or Black workers earned the federal minimum wage or less. Among White, Asian, and Hispanic workers, the percentage was about 2 percent. (See table 1.)
Education. Among hourly paid workers age 16 and older, about 4 percent of those without a high school diploma earned the federal minimum wage or less, compared with about 2 percent of those who had a high school diploma
