The rank and file democrats want to be perceived as caring.
The party elites want to destroy the middle class, which is what minimum wage does. Minimum wage work has less value than the minimum wage, which means it's taking money from somewhere else to cover that gap.
The money comes from people who interact most with minimum wage jobs. Most people eating fast food to pay for $20/hr workers are not the rich - they have private chefs. So the minimum wage is continually sucking money out of lower and middle class workers and dragging them down.
Or an example: if minimum wage goes from $10 to $20 and you're middle class making $50/hr then you'd need a 20% raise just to keep up in terms of raw dollars whereas a rich person making $500 and hour only needs a 2% raise. And that's only raw dollars, which are now worth less, so you'd actually need probably a 50% raise which you'll have to fight tooth and nail for and will lag the minimum wage increase.
The rank and file democrats want to be perceived as caring.
The party elites want to destroy the middle class, which is what minimum wage does. Minimum wage work has less value than the minimum wage, which means it's taking money from somewhere else to cover that gap.
The money comes from people who interact most with minimum wage jobs. Most people eating fast food to pay for $20/hr workers are not the rich - they have private chefs. So the minimum wage is continually sucking money out of lower and middle class workers and dragging them down.
Or an example: if minimum wage goes from $10 to $20 and you're middle class making $50/hr then you'd need a 20% raise just to keep up in terms of raw dollars whereas a rich person making $500 and hour only needs a 2% raise. And that's only raw dollars, which are now worth less, so you'd actually need probably a 50% raise which you'll have to fight tooth and nail for and will lag the minimum wage increase.