I can. First, you're exaggerating. The limit had increased since the great depression. But let's play in your court with this ball, and assume that's true. The fact is, that everytime you raise the min wage, you increase inflation due to the increase of costs, as once everyone is making a higher base, that raises the costs of everything. The true solution is to give the dollar the strongest value it can hold, so that minimum wage isn't below the poverity line. Now listen, I'm hardly high on the hog, infact, one might say we (me and mine) live below that poverty line. So I'm not against aiding those that are below that line in getting above it, but the unseen conquience, everytime, the min wage raises is so does the costs, as rich people don't like parting with pennies and will find a way to make money back. Be it by replacing the person with a machine, or finding some poor soul that has little choice but to work at a slave wage. The solution isn't in continually raising the bar, but to restore the value of the dollar. Gold standard alone won't fly in the digital age, so don't think i'm here to shill some Jeff Jarrett nonsense, but there is a truth in that america can make the dollar strong, like Clinton did (invention of common internet use, that is to say, anyone can get online as before it was just professors and colleges and military guys, ect., anyways, that helped). A strong economy makes it to where you don't have to keep making it harder on the workers and the bosses. And it is easy to achieve. First, you got to curtail inflation. One way to do that is what's being done with gas prices, so it's not like the current administration isn't trying to fix the issue. But that 16 trill in debt makes it hard for the dollar to look as strong as it did in a surplus. So yeah, america needs to build itself back up, build back up that surplus, so we use the intrest gained on the value of the dollar to pay for the programs that as a modern society are simply a must.
