...is that there are many small businesses with minimal profit margins. They cannot pay such a wage. Also, the min wage number has to not always assume NY or DC or LA. In more rural areas, the wages are lower, the cost of living is lower, and the ability for a small business to make money is less. A $15/hr base wage is unteneble to them.
Your lack of business understanding is exactly why you guys had such a sucky economy under Obama. Nurture the small businesses, and they will nurture their employees.
Right now in my small town, the Trump economy is so strong that small businesses are offering more voluntarily just to get and keep good workers.
Trickle down works.
Now, why are you ok with Bernie treating his employees differently from the way he expects others businesses not his own to treat them? Afterall, I am not running around saying that only $15/hr is humane like Sanders is.