That Laska person (aka: Tool) simply regurgitated the business talking points that I had to listen to for years before I retired. My last job (For 27 years) was in one of Tucson's largest hospitals. When I started there, it was a non-profit community medical center: highly regarded by the entire populous, and a prize place to work, due to its high wages in a right-to-work state. Then it went corporate, and we began to hear this sort of bullshit. At one point, to drive up profits, the CEO fired two-thirds of our staff. Raises stopped and wages froze. Soon, I was making less than a McDonald's worker, serving on the computer help desk and operating the mainframe. All around me, morale dropped. TPTB began to notice that Tucson no longer had such a glowing opinion of our hospital. After all, everyone in town knew someone who worked there, and knew how we were being treated. Profits sank lower, and we started to get stern lectures about teamwork, working longer hours, not using the health insurance that we had paid for, etc. Talking about unions got a lot of people fired. Then there were stern talkings-to about the perils of organized labor, and the possibility that the hospital would close if unions showed up. After five years without raises because the place "couldn't afford them", the corporation built a huge extension with the profits our work had generated.
I retired early.
Laska can bite my crank.

You have to have something seriously wrong with you to be a repug.

that business can't make profits AND pay their employees enough to live on in return for making those profits.

In short, a lot of companies' business model requires their employees get exploited.

Maybe it's the business model that's the problem?

about a higher minimum wage hurting a small company.
Base Minimum wage on company profits
0-3 million; current wage
3M-5M; $10.00
5M-10M; $13.00
10M-100M; $15.00
100M and Up; $17.00