It is called minimum wage because it is the minimum that a company is forced to pay their employees. If it weren't for minimum wage, people would still be working as basically slaves. Not that what they make now is much better.

Besides, companies typically will increase other wages because they WANT to, not because they HAVE to. Minimum wage would go up because it has to. Companies COULD agree to maintain the wages of higher paid employees and things would be fine, but people are greedy and can't stand it when they see that someone who didn't go to college is actually making ends meet for once.

It is not a competition, yet these people want minimum wage to remain low, to keep the poor down, away from their level. Keep them down, so they can't afford to send their kids to college, and keep the cycle going.

And I'm not going to pretend that these people are only conservative republicans....this is something that both parties are at fault for. People need to understand that because of this trend to always have your wages go up when minimum wage goes up, affects inflation and we are back where we started. People need to understand that just because their poor neighbors got a new car finally, doesn't mean that they have to go out and buy 2 new cars, each worth 4 times as much as the one car the poor people bought. People need to understand that it would be good for our economy overall if poor people were made a little bit richer. They would be able to spend more, they would be able to invest more, save more, they would get off of government programs...not all but some.

I don't know, maybe I'm just wasting my breath. Go ahead keep the wage low, and continue to ask for a raise each year of about 3.5%. greedy sons of (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)es