I have mixed emotions. I believe it should be 9 or 10 but not 15 because economy will go up.

Minimum Wage Hurts Workers

The federal minimum wage, by forcing employers to pay their workers a certain amount, requires them to fire people to maintain profitability, thereby destroying jobs and causing unemployment. Not only this, but businesses will often cut corners to reduce costs when they are forced to be artificially higher wages. With the price of labour increased, the price of many goods and services will furthermore rise, and people will have to spend more money on essentials and less on luxuries, killing jobs, raising prices, and inflating the revenue system. This more than offsets any benefits the select…  Read more few workers who have the fortune to retain their jobs may enjoy, not to mention destroys freedom for everyone not working at a minimum wage job. With the cost of living higher, the wages may increase for workers but inflation-adjusted and price-adjusted wages will fall, meaning that while they have more money their money gets them less far and you've cut everyone's standard of living. Whenever the government intervenes in the free market it causes more damage than good, 100 percent of the time.