Form the linked article: > allocates benefits as higher earnings nearly evenly across the income distribution OK by me. Note that it doesn't allocate benefit

Form the linked article: > allocates benefits as higher earnings nearly evenly across the income distribution OK by me. Note that it doesn't allocate benefit to idle owners f investment income. > Even after taxes, 27.6 percent of increased earnings go to families in the top 40 percent of the income distribution. "top 40%" is rather silly bucket. That includes basically the median family, all the way to billionaires. > Over 25 percent of the increased earnings are collected back as income and payroll taxes (aka effectively a tax on businesses that pay the minimum wage) It takes massive concern trolling to argue that this effect is worst than not raising the minimum wage Pardon me if I overlooked the anti-minimum-wage camp yelling "lower taxes on the working poor!"