The size of the business really doesn't matter. You could make an argument that region could matter, but this doesn't matter again since some areas allready impose minimum wage laws higher than the national minimum wage.
Repug: When you think about it, who is making the minimum wage? I can't think of a single person, but traditionally minimum wage is part time labor. It's not people who have to support a family.
And what happens when you raise the minimum wage? Pure science tells us that less jobs will be offered at the new minimum wage than the old one.... so people who were willing to work at the minimum wage now have a harder time finding that job. Now if I'm not mistaken, the whole concept behind this flawed plan was to help out the poor guy when in effect all we've done is make it harder for him to get a job (and inadvertantly helped out the union guy, but this is another story).
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