Reply To: question for democrats (and i guess anyone else that wants to chime in)

Because many large companies can afford to pay a lot more to their employees so that raising the minimum wage won’t affect them. The affects only smaller and mid-sized companies who will be forced to lay off workers and/or hire illegals for under minimum wage. But the vast majority of minimum wage workers work for places that can well afford an extra 50k a year to pay their workers.