Anytime you artificially set price floors and ceilings you have unintended consequences. Why put the burden on private businesses?
There is a better answer - keep the minimum wage where it is until it becomes meaningless because of inflation and increase the Earned Income Tax Credit and make it easier for employers to pass it on to workers each month. They already take out taxes, it shouldn't be hard to do the opposite.
The EITC has historically been supported by both Republican and Democratic presidents.
There is a better answer - keep the minimum wage where it is until it becomes meaningless because of inflation and increase the Earned Income Tax Credit and make it easier for employers to pass it on to workers each month. They already take out taxes, it shouldn't be hard to do the opposite.
The EITC has historically been supported by both Republican and Democratic presidents.