Everyone is going on about a "living wage", but what about the illegal aliens who live in America who make substantially less than that, and come here illegally with great effort to get it? Why would they do that unless it was profitable? They seem to have no problem living on what most people would not consider a "living wage". It seems obvious then that the goal in mind with raising the minimum wage is to make it even more difficult to employ Americans, leaving those jobs to illegal aliens and punishing businesses who try to follow the law and only hire citizens. This gives those who hire illegal aliens more leverage by the fact that doing away with illegals would mean a substantially higher price hike for their products given that they would have to pay their employees that much more.
> It seems obvious then that the goal in mind with raising the minimum wage is to make it even more difficult to employ Americans
Do you realistically think that this is the goal? Do you think that someone thought, Let's look for ways that Americans can't get a job?
> leaving those jobs to illegal aliens and punishing businesses who try to follow the law and only hire citizens
If a business doesn't care about the law, why are they paying the minimum wage in the first place? Isn't hiring illegals, illegal?
I see why you are worried. As the article says "We said that we thought the dramatic wage increase might likely be very good for San Francisco, but it wasn't sustainable for us.". So what is good for the majority is not always good for all individuals. But that doesn't mean that it is a bad idea.
