I have no doubt that all of that is true.

I sill believe that the outcome of raising or not raising the MW will have little or no effect on the vast majority of all people affected.

Yes, there is a group of people whose lives would be greatly affected, I outlined those people in my previous post.

The 23 million you are talking about are not going to see any life change, quality of life change, or standard of living change.

The average household income in the US is over $60,000 a year.

So if one of the workers makes $10 an hour and works full time, that would mean the other worker makes ~40,000 a year. If you give the $10 an hour worker a $1 raise then you go from a household income of $60,000 a year to $62,000 a year. That is a very small difference for their overall quality of life, sure it is an increase, but what justification do we have as a society to legislate a wage increase for families who make over $60,000 a year?

I honestly don't care one way or the other as it really has no effect on the majority of people.

This really is a fabricated argument.

On one hand we have people making a bunch of false claims about how horrible an increase would be, and on the other hand we have a lot of people extremely exaggerating how much of a positive effect it would have. When in reality it will really do nothing either way.

My advice would be, if you want to make more money be a good employee, negotiate your wage, learn new skills, go to college or a trade school, and make yourself more marketable. The US has thousands of subsidized or even free programs to help you with this. Even if the MW is raised it will not have a positive impact on your life if you don't do all those other things. You will just sit at MW for the rest of your life.

And enough with all these people who claim that raising the MW will make every small business go under. It wont