In before someone tally’s the welfare low paid workers get that subsidizes “poor” companies like Walmart raking in mega $$$$.
Too much of our tax dollars back fill for greedy companies who use those tax dollars to stamp out competition.
Mandating minimum wage hikes to solve the predatory nature of the free market is as stupid charging tariffs to level the playing field with foreign competition……..

oh wait.
A free market should be competitive NOT predatory. It is true that min. wage hikes often have bad outcomes. This should not be an excuse for having companies RAPE our economy and not treat workers fairly. The trick is to find ways to incentivize companies to do this of their own volition.
I have always wondered why there is not more profit sharing and employee ownership. Build in a system so as your company does better the employees do too. If the company does poorly the employees carry that too.
My brother has an ownership stake in a large environmental engineering firm. The 9 to 5ers get their pay but people like my brother, who worked their freaking ass off, have an opportunity for a partnership not unlike a law firm.