This is just typical dem. vs rep. that we see here all the time. I'm don't have time to play today.
Suit yourself. But you're right - it's called class warfare. Dems perpetrate it, because they gain votes by casting republicans as the bad guys, when in the long run, nobody gains anything by it.
It's a situation easily shown - minimum wage just makes people feel better. Since it was implemented back in the New Deal, it doesn't change anything except make people feel better about it.
In the short term, it costs jobs, because many businesses have a slim profit margin to begin with - increasing their payroll costs by 25% - which is what the latest increase will be - usually means that small businesses have to cut people because you can't raise your rates and prices over night.
So while Jorge got a raise - Jose went home with a box and a pink slip. Because when a business has to pay more to its employees but doesn't make any more money, someone has to go, and the rest have to make up the difference.
Because minimum wage affects businesses that hire minimum wage workers - they have to raise their rates to cover costs. So Jose gets his job back eventually, but now his paycheck buys less. In fact, it buys about what it bought BEFORE the raise.
So how does Jose compete? Job skills. You can't keep doing the same damned thing year after year and expect the government to see to it that your employer pays you more to do the same work. You improve your situation by gaining skills and education. Three fourths of all immigrant minimum wage earners have less than a ninth grade education and marginal understanding of English. Some years back, my family housed in their home and helped a whole family to learn English and gain enough skills to live comfortably on their own. They're all doing well now, and own their own business.
If Dems want to improve the lot of the poor, they'd drop the whole minimum wage thing and go for job training.