Democrats are pushing the job-destroying national minimum wage increase to $15 an hour, and they are almost universally supported in their quest for office by the news media.  The increase will take away job opportunities for the young, minorities, and the less educated.  It will greatly harm rural areas, along with small and midsize communities, as they struggle to keep jobs and people from moving.  People will have fewer opportunities to get their first job to start moving up the economic ladder. Seniors on fixed incomes will be greatly harmed because not only will their opportunities to get jobs to supplement their income disappear, but their costs for necessities will increase substantially. The economy is already moving toward more automation because of existing costs, and the movement will be accelerated exponentially depending on how high government pushes the cost of hiring employees.  Not only do Democrats want $15 per hour for...(Read Full Post)