goferking0

Because federal is the floor all the states need to be at or above. Or because states are just arbitrary boundaries in the nation.

Why are you so against anything other than it should barely be above the worst state(s)?

And if for a living wage you wouldn't be saying 17 since that's still too low in your example of Arkansas

https://livingwage.mit.edu/states/05

That would have made a much better headline

Texas also loves to restrict number of polling places in densely populated areas

Or simply because it's not pure free market so should get removed completely.

They seem really in favor of just removing gov protections

I'd argue you're the one who needs more courses on economics but considering how varied the courses and reasoning in economics can be that's slightly pointless. Then again wonder which you took if arguing we should be racing to bottom with wages. MIT puts it best by saying min wage should be a living wage not just poverty level:

https://livingwage.mit.edu/

Then there's the fact it would be in 20 dollars rage by simply being tied to inflation:

https://cepr.net/publications/correction-this-is-what-minimum-wage-would-be-if-it-kept-pace-with-productivity/

Finally increasing it would actually help marginalized groups

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/raising-the-minimum-wage-would-be-an-investment-in-growing-the-middle-class/

Honestly you don't or you'd understand it's too low. The entire point of a minimum wage is it's supposed to be the minimum amount a person needs to make to survive as businesses will do everything they can do pay as low as they can. It's the floor and shouldn't be a poverty wage which it continues to be as people like you say we can't possibly do anything to help people.

That drives people to corporate chains, shuttering local businesses whose employees end up working for minimum wage for the corporations. That’s how you end up with an entire state on welfare and SNAP benefits

Notice how that's already the case in most of small town America, to the point large corporations train staff during orientation on how to get it.

This is why go higher and force them to actually pay.

Then again you only want the bare minimum so what's the point of trying to convince you of anything

It's barely enough in the poorest state, how is that acceptable to you?

Just to show how bad it is, in today's money if it's a family 17 just 2 dollars over poverty wage of 15.

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-minimum-wage-is-a-poverty-wage/

best we can do is $8 an hour

So it's already barely enough now so we shouldn't want it higher in the future?

Along with them trying to make it so votes have to be counted by end of the day

Love the person is ignoring the one asking if just being accused should be an appropriate level for being deported

Or just hippies