I think it needs to go north of that. Small business owners are going to say, you're going to kill me. They've always said that. But right now The minimum wage is lower when you account for inflation by something like 30% than it was the last time we raised it. We should just index it to inflation so we don't have these fights every few years. We should do health care that's available to everybody, like that proposal I was telling you about earlier. (11:55–12:02)
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Asserts that the real value of the minimum wage is about 30% lower than the last increase when adjusted for inflation.
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