Minimum sales prices for alcohol are a startlingly bad idea. As with excise duties, the effects are regressive.
I can tell you what people on minimum wage want They want a career. They don't want a minimum wage.
Congress has not raised the minimum wage since 1997. The minimum wage is now at its lowest level in 50 years adjusted for inflation.
The state of Alaska has a minimum wage which is higher than the federal level because our state leaders have made that determination.
Minimum wage laws have never worked in terms of having the middle class attain more prosperity.
I have no issue with raising minimum wage, but then the customer can't say to us, 'Why are you raising your prices?'
Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.