If the government is going to control wages by enforcing a minimum wage rate I wonder why they set the number below the poverty level. Why not make the minimum wage something that people can live on like $15 an hour or so and since we are in the wage control business why not set the maximum wage as well? Maybe something like the highest paid person in a company cannot make more than 100 times the lowest. Executives would be scrambling to raise the lowest wages.
I also wonder why Arnold decided to balance the budget by lowering the wages of the lowest paid workers instead of lowering the wages of the highest paid?