This morning I woke up stressing over something I read last night on social media prior to falling asleep. It was a post about how liberals don’t seem to understand that prices will go up if employees are paid a living wage. The post gnawed away at me all day so this evening I added a comment of my own: raising the minimum wage isn’t a liberal issue…it’s a humanitarian issue.

They’re right about one thing…it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize prices will rise if minimum wage workers can suddenly afford their rent. As a liberal, even I can figure that out. What the non-liberals don’t understand is that some of us are willing to pay more for our fast food if it actually helps service workers stay afloat .

The only other option would be to pay people what they’re worth out of corporate profits. But it would take a rocket scientist to figure out how to make that idea work.