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Originally Posted by schnellman

There is one federal minimum wage and forty-eight state minimum wage laws. Some are very complex.

Minimum wage is not and should never be a living wage. Do you want the zit-faced sixteen year-old at McDonald's to make enough money to support a family of four? If you do, you want to pay $20 for your Big Mac.

And yes, I am an economics professor.

+1 to all this. Why are we as a nation so fixated on removing the natural consequences to people's poor decision making? I just can't follow that logic. The more the government gets involved in private business the messier it gets.

It's so unpopular to be successful in this country. It's also unpopular to earn your own way, check out these entitlement folks with not one but two hands out wide open:
We Are the 99 Percent