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Truthfully I agree but I'd argue this seems more like a reason to decouple healthcare from employment entirely. Such as with socialized medical coverage like you suggest.

An increase in spending is an increase in spending, it is still a part of the total compensation an employee has received. My point was purely that lensing the issue through minimu…

That's not entirely true. Taxes on production and services are ultimately taxes on consumption, this is part of why many economists have advocated for a mix of raising income taxes…

The people being hired are not the ones having their hours scaled back. If demand for labor rises at a natural average over time in an area then minimum wage could reduce scheduled…

I don't understand why this isn't a red herring. Minimum wage may be remaining stagnant but total employee compensation has been rising steadily, it's just that most of that compen…