If minimum wage goes up to 15 bucks an hour?

The purpose & result of every liberal plan is to weaken the economy & then force a fix, and then complain "no devent country would have/do X". For a liberal the worse things get the sooner The Glorious Revolution will happen. Utopia will be here someday and it should require the death of more than 2/3 of the inferior masses. Oh, and they want you to thank them for the privilege of following their orders.

 

Wage comparison by states

 

Yet you aren't looking at the other side of that coin.. Minimum wage has not even kept up with current inflation. It would already be $15/hr if it had. This isn't limited to just minimum wage btw, most blue collar jobs have not kept up with inflation for the last 30 years..

So if you want to talk inflation, you have to look at it from both sides..

 

The truckers become insolvent

 

1) yes NYC skews the average. If you cut out LA and Silcon Valley California's average would drop like a rock.

2) Average your wife and your salary together. If you make $20 an hour with no benefits, and she makes $10 an hour with benifits, and you both work 40 hours a week then your house hold is making $30 an hour. In 1970 a single income at minimum wage could support a family. Not get them ahead, but pay all the bills without resorting to welfare. Now it takes a dual income household.

 

Agreed sadly. But that will certainly expedite it

 

i guess to answer your interrogatory half-sentence - if min wage goes up, so does the cost...of everything. higher wages have to be compensated. it will fall on the consumer.