Of course, the corporations would never - sm

Capitalism is working, and it's sending U.S. jobs overseas, and we take what's available. - sm

In addition to jobs being sent overseas to cheap labor while the employer eases their US tax burden through offshoring, employers have been freezing employees' wages and actively lowering employee's wages and benefits while inflation is certainly NOT frozen, MTs being a very good example of this. Some people have therefore been forced to seek government assistance while still in the same job that used to pay well, thus causing the government to subsidize what the employer used to pay. Corporate profits are at an all-time high, witness the stock market, while the rich are doing great and the middle class is shrinking, and we are becoming a nation of have and have nots.

Raising the minimum wage gets people off the government teat and makes their employer pay a fair wage that takes them out of poverty status.

In July 2014, Republicans in the Senate blocked the Bring Jobs Home Act which offered tax credits of 20% to companies to move back to the US and would allow them to write-off costs of relocating to the US.

You said:  "if the employee doesn't like minimum wage, then they should have a goal to find a job that is above minimum wage - maybe something with benefits - in order words, if you don't like it - go find something else...."

Newsflash: People don't have a goal to make minimum wage; they take the jobs they can get or they're still in the same job having their pay/benefits being frozen or even cut and cut again while inflation doesn't stop. This adversely affects single women, whose employer can legally pay them less than their male counterparts doing the exact same job. Republicans in Congress blocked job bill after job bill, but they've blocked anything Obama tried to do, as they planned since before Obama took office to obstruct everything he proposed and then blame him for it and make him a 1-term president (epic fail on that goal). 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/apr/26/democrats-gop-plot-obstruct-obama

If the federal minimum wage had kept up with inflation over the last 40 years, it would now be $10.90 instead of $7.25. Republicans have blocked multiple attempts by Democrats to raise the minimum wage.

The only raise I have received as an MT - sm

Ah, if only economics, let alone capitalism, were so simple. - Or even if the capitalist system worked this way..

...but we all know that it isn't that simple, and we have ample proof that it certainly doesn't work the way you suggest.  Employers have many choices when it comes to employment aside from merely the hourly wage (how many to hire, how many hours to give them, what compensation other than wages to offer, whether to hire domestically or in another country, etc.) - and it' been proven time and time and time and TIME again that if you squeeze them on the wage side they will simply adapt their compensation and hiring practices in terms of the other choices that are available to them.

Toss in the rapid advancements in automation, which are accelerating by the day (a robot waiter is coming to a restaurant near you SOONER THAN YOU THINK, and probably a robotic medical assistant as well), and the consequences of squeezing low-wage sectors will (and already have) become even more dire.

The EU makes a very good "petri dish" for economic comparisons because we have a variety of economic models all operating within the same market.

Some have minimum wage laws and some do not.  Those without such laws have, over years, averaged around 3% lower unemployment rates than those with minimum wage laws.   See the top chart in the image.

And it's very funny (not to say bizarre) that someone's logical system would allow them to complain about "capitalism" resulting in jobs shifting overseas while arguing at the same time for a rise in minimum wage.  HINT:  Jobs shift overseas primarily to take advantage of lower wages elsewhere. 

The bottom graphic in the image reflects the results of a survey of executives with regard to two questions respecting the minimum wage.  It illustrates just one of the responses that companies can take to raising the minimum wage - i.e., reduced hiring.  As I said, beyond this there are many other ways that companies can respond that will not benefit the employee.

And I haven't even mentioned the most obvious fact at all - i.e. that if my wage at McDonald's goes up, it's virtually inevitable that I'm going to turn around and pay more for that combo at the Pizza Hut.

I'm in favor of good wages, but throughout all the time that we've had minimum wage laws, poverty has been increasing and there's been a steady erosion in low-wage job opportunities because of ALL THOSE OTHER CHOICES that employers have - including sending work overseas.

Ah, if only the US were the EU, and you didn't supply your source. - Let me do it for you.

Raising Minimum Wage Will Hurt More than Help - sm

Thank you for making my voting decision an easy one. - sm

That's what they want you to do. - Don't realize the big picture.

The brainwashed lock-steppers are the ones - who believe "trickle-down" economics

More Charles Koch Foundation Right-Wing Propaganda - sm

Let's see, do I really believe the Koch Brothers are concerned about Americans' best interests or their own corporate interests?

ROTFL

Fraudulent voter information disseminated by the Kochs' Americans for Prosperity in North Carolina, Arkansas, Illinois, and Wisconsin attempting to mislead voters? Pathetic to have to suppress the vote, but it's the conservative way because if people are allowed to vote, conservatives lose.

How do big corporations like the Koch's big business convince "conservative" and "patriot" Americans to vote lockstep against their own best interests? Send their jobs overseas to cheap labor and then convince them that cheap labor crossing the border is taking their jobs. This works with people that are motivated by fear and smear, and the Koch's laugh all the way to the bank. They're not laughing with you.

Sounds like Dirty Harry has a pal. - LOL

You seem to want to discuss me personally, as if you actually know me. - LOL

I find it odd that a min. wage worker like an MT - would believe that lie.

So b/c many transcriptionists are making minimum wage, - Valley Girl

Not everyone can get out of a minimum wage job. - (We sure didnt, did we?) sm