This thread is giving me cancer. 
Why? No mention yet of how hot and sexy min. wage babes are.
More on point, those who have mentioned the low-skill turnstyle are absolutely right. These places churn and burn because the low wages and serfish atmosphere create toxicity in the workplace. Not to mention a McSlave can be fired for pretty much any reason their equally miserable boss decides. Stable people with stable income pump stable spending money back into the economy. The world is complicated, but some things just make sense.
You're ignoring the arguments that Nix has made throughout this thread. Even assuming that a minimum increase would improve "the economy" by stimulating demand, that still doesn't refute the argument that such an increase would hurt lower-skilled workers by making them less/unemployable.
