People in minimum wage jobs are _already_ being subsidized by the government. Walmart holds training sessions for new employees to help them apply for food stam

People in minimum wage jobs are _already_ being subsidized by the government. Walmart holds training sessions for new employees to help them apply for food stamps, Medicaid, and public housing. The slack is either picked up by public debt or private debt and the lower the minimum wage is, the more business get to skate by on the largesse of the federal government. So, no, minimum wage jobs wouldn't go down (they couldn't at any rate, without concomitant changes in law), and it's entirely possible the federal burden would be _lower_.