> ... why not eliminate it, if it's bad?
Did I say that the minimum wage was bad?
I view the minimum wage as something with both advantages and disadvantages. Depending on its level, different workers and businesses are helped or hurt.
If $15 is helpful, then $20 must be more helpful, except to the workers whose hours are cut back, etc. At each point along the scale some workers are helped but others are hurt.
If everyone who supports the minimum wage thinks that, beyond a certain level, it is no longer "helpful", what is the official, universally accepted definition of "helpful"?
How many workers can lose their jobs vs how many experience an improved standard of living?