Or, just make the straightforward observation that the whole American economy depends on a highly mobile labor force where the currently pitiable minwage can no longer pay the gas bills that said labor force requires to make their daily commute. Which is part of the reason orange guy has his nutsack in a vise, since he may very well manage to collapse the US economy on his watch by running the domestic economy on conservative principles and also starting a war that causes a crucial input into the national economy to explode in price. Hence his catastrophic approval rating and why the midterms will most likely be a blue landslide. The US will go up in smoke if you continue to run the economy on the assumption that squeezing the least well off even harder will bring about prosperity. It won't.