He can make the minimum wage anything he likes... What good is it if companies that would normally hire a few extra people no longer do so because of the added expense. Another issue that people don't often think about is that most companies just try and pass the added expenses on to the consumer. At some point the products either become so expensive or so reduced in size that people just stop buying them. I think the White House Spear Chucker is doing everything he can to give us an African style economy.