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i don't care how the american economy is defined. i'm interested as to how a higher national wage would affect the people who work in farming/manufacturing jobs. which is why i brought up my point asking if this would just promote more importing goods from out of the country. so to answer your original question...yes, it does matter if this promotes retailers getting there products from non-US manufacturers because it will also put many americans out of jobs.
so, does a higher national minimum wage encourage retailers to get more products from out of the country where the price different will be even greater to american made/grown products?
Arent most imports already cheaper than domestic items anyways? Any domestic producer already has their handful trying to price compete against countries with no labor laws, or unions, or are virtual slave economies with or without a minimum wage hike.
If we want to protect them, then we should but not by lowering our labor standards to match some third world.