If It's Really True, Shouldn't Just About Everybody Be Out Of Work?

Conservative ideology has always held that increasing the minimum wage is always a jobs-killer, guaranteed to to cause catastrophic mass lay-offs.

As demonstrated in Tuesday's debate, the current batch of GOP geniuses are still toeing that same old line:



A federal minimum wage has been the law of the land sice 1938.  Since then, we've raised it 22 times.  If every increase in the minimum wage leads to massive job loss, then by now there ought to be just about 12 or 13 jobs left in all of America.