There's no number high enough to satisfy people who want to raise minimum wage.

The funny thing that almost every vocal supporter of raising the minimum wage does is respond to people like me, who can honestly say that we made less than what the minimum wage is now and survived in some of the most expensive places to live, by pointing out that we don't have kids or pets or anything.

First off, I didn't have pets when I was desperately poor because it would have been irresponsible. That's a very controllable factor in life. Having kids is usually controllable but for horrifying circumstances. Businesses aren't charities and no law is going to make them into charities.

Still, they have to see the greased precipice upon which they're perching themselves. They think that they're making a "gotcha" point when they bring dependants into the discussion; but, they're really trapping themselves. "Well, you don't have kids. Add two kids to the equation and tell me that the minimum wage is high enough." Why are you being so niggardly about it? Why are you stopping at two kids? How about a single parent of three or four? Do you not care about them? What, you don't think that Octomom should be able to live comfortably on the minimum wage? Are you so callous to say that Octomom isn't entitled to a minimum wage that will cover everything that she needs if she decides to get two or three dogs on top of the kids?

At some point, these people have to finally acknowledge a cutoff where the minimum wage simply gets too high or they have to admit that they're playing "if you give a mouse a cookie" with the minimum wage, and that there's no number high enough to satisfy them.