“The real issue is the rich business owners don’t want to pay people enough to live and the workers want o earn enough to live.”
JJ2020,
Perhaps you were raised in Communist Russia but Americans go into business and employ workers to make a profit. Let’s take the simple example of a “rich and greedy” business owner who has an annual budget of $60K to pay three menial workers at $10 per hour. Now the very generous federal government mandates that he pay his menial workers $15 per hour, what do you think is going to happen? He’s not going to eat the additional $30K or price his product out of the market. He’s going to fire one employee and make the other two work harder for their “living wage”.
The very generous federal government really taught that “rich and greedy” owner a lesson for having the nerve to open a business, didn’t they?