I'm all for raising the minimum wage. Five bucks an hour or whatever it is is ridiculous. While small busineses may struggle to employ small amounts of people big corporations won't. I'm no economist, but it seems the best solution would to impose a minumum employee minimum wage: Businesses with 10 or more employee's (or whatever number works) would have to raise their minimum wage to 7.50, while businesses with 10 or lesscould keep their wages down to 5.50 or something. Of course then there would be no incentive for anyone to want to work for a small business, but really it seems like those small businesses with like 3 employee's are usually family operated anyway. Most resturants have more than 10 employee's, which is where a lot of young struggling people work. I'm sure this idea has tons of holes in it, but it seems like it could be molded to somehow work eventually.
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