[KevinTheOmnivore]

We already have minimum wages. Why hasn't everybody lost their job?

I understand the side of the spectrum "ya'll's" coming from. But you can't argue that simply establishing a bear-minimum wage leads to massive job loss. It simply hasn't proven to be true. We raised the minimum wage in 1997, as we have in the past. No massive economic collapse. Certainly, we've lost manual labor jobs and manufacturing jobs overseas, but that can't be attributed to a minimum wage. You can't compete with corporations that can pay Indonesians $0.10 an hour, no matter how low your wages are.

If the minimum wage were adjusted to the standard of living or inflation, it would be far higher than the tiny raise ol' Teddy boy wants to add on. Congress has certainly jumped throughout the years to adjust their own salaries to the standard of living, why shouldn't the blue collar worker be allowed to catch up too??? This isn't like the $8/hour hike that guys like Kucinich want, not even close.

Since we last raised it in 1997, six more states have since passed their own minimum wage laws that are higher than the federal. That makes it a total of 12, a quarter of the country.

You can argue all you like about, uh, paying people fairly for the work they do leading to no more work, but i don't think that's what this is.

It won't happen until a new Congress gets in anyway.