Do you think it'd be as snappy if Bernie was up there at the podium asking for $14.79 per hour? These are arbitrary numbers, when thinking on an economy-wide s

Do you think it'd be as snappy if Bernie was up there at the podium asking for $14.79 per hour? These are arbitrary numbers, when thinking on an economy-wide scale, because $15/hr does a LOT more for someone in a small town than a big city. The point is to pick something reasonably high, a non-starvation wage, that is also easy to market to the masses. I don't think economists are huge fans of $15/hr across the board, so $20/hr would probably be abhorrent to them. But economists can be totally wrong and still keep their jobs and respect due to the political use of economics these days.