Well, many people think wages offered should be based on what a business is able and willing to pay. Not what a third party decides that an employee needs. If the taxpayers want to dole out money to people, then thats their problem.

That being said, overall minimum wage is a lot less arbitrary in implementation, and also typically a lot less damaging than the majority of govt interventionism.

IF the govt hadnt distorted the economy and inhibited growth and employment in the first place, a rising minimum wage would likely not be needed. In an unstable economy already hosed by mismanaged fiat money and financial protectionism , a rising minimum wage may be the only means to help the lower rung people pay for rising costs of basic necessities like food and gas that are inflated by our insane monetary and fiscal policies and conveniently left out of govt inflation indexes.

To wit: Other govt policies are likely the far larger culprit in terms of inflationary pressure. But telling people what they have to pay isnt all rainbows and roses either.

For who could be free when every other man's humour might domineer over him? - John Locke (2nd Treatise, sect 57)