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Because we're talking about helping the working class. Federal government needs to operate. The treasury secretary who says federal minimum wage should stay at $7.50 clearly does not have the working class in mind. If anything it should be at the highest level of all the states.

Everybody seems perfectly willing to subsidize billion dollar companies with our tax dollars while they raise prices and pay shit wages. Why are you okay with our current system of wildly uneven wealth redistribution?
A negative impact to increasing the minimum wage is that businesses that hire unskilled labor at those wages most often will simply hire less workers. We have seen this happen recently in California and it’s especially relevant today with the AI revolution.

Flippy the robotic burger cook doesn’t care about wages, won’t unionize, and is happy to work as many hours as it’s employer demands…