You need to understand that I’m giving you a lecture series. Please refer back in your notes to see the relationship between minimum wage and median wage. A quick recap, a food factory working making $16/hr in a state with an $8.00 minimum wage feels good about their position and pay. A food factory working making $16/hr would be far less happy if the federal minimum wage went to $15. In order to keep employees the food factory would be compelled to increases wages.That was the wage in Seattle. The minimum wage for the state is $15.74.
Raising the minimum wage doesn't affect 100% of the cost structure, moron. Much of the food processing establishments already pay more than $15/hr. and the same is true for overhead.
Your drivel is just simple stupidity clothed in hyperbole.
Therefore, an increase in the federal minimum wage does increase the cost of the entire expense ledger.