Minimum wage was inacted not because the rich sat on their money or were evil. Again a skewed statement. It was for the business owners that took advantage of people, and your suggesting that they all were like that is false. Those business owners weren't all rich. Many just get by or break even. Those corrupt people are in all levels of income. I do agree with a minimum wage that is fair as to avoid those types of situations. I don't however believe in the current proposals of minimum wage being upwards of $20 hr. Those jobs are intended to be stepping stone jobs. Jobs that build experience in the work force and shouldn't be mandated to be a living wage. It is through hard work and determination that we have the ability to get out of low income situations and climb the ladder. Some people like my father worked two full time jobs to accomplish that. He may have gotten by with one job but in order to buy a home and afford his family more opportunity he did what he had to. I'm a small business owner and I know that it would affect me if I had to pay a part time employee or someone starting out $17 an hour for a menial job. That's not to say I wouldn't give raises and pay that much or more but it should be up to the employer IMO.

Well $20 an hour is ridiculous. I'm in support of making minimum wage enough to support yourself, not enough to splurge on Louis Vuitton lol

I said $20 because Seattle has $15 minimum wage and socialist party wants to raise it. NYC is going to to be $15 soon.

“No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.” “By living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level — I mean the wages of a decent living.” “Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, who has been turning his employees over to the Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company’s undistributed reserves, tell you – using his stockholders’ money to pay the postage for his personal opinions — tell you that a wage of $11.00 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry.” “All but the hopelessly reactionary will agree that to conserve our primary resources of man power, government must have some control over maximum hours, minimum wages, the evil of child labor and the exploitation of unorganized labor.” That's F.D.R.--the man who set up minimum wage--and a President everyone loved. People like you should acknowledge him.