Inflation? Oh wait, there is none. Oops. Raising minimum wage reduces jobs? Oops, absolutely no evidence for this. Oh my! Trickle-down theory? Disproved over and over and over again, but what the hey, Rush and Fox say I should believe it. Facts? I hate 'em. I make up my own.
"Trickledown theory" is a shibboleth. It can't have been disproved, because it was never implemented. We can talk about supply side control of inflation or something if you wish, but when you start playing the "trickledown" card, you're quoting sources at least as biased as those you're mocking.
No inflation? Really? Yes, one widely quoted federal inflation indicator has been relatively flat for a long time. That indicator specifically excludes food and energy costs, which are a huge portion of the budgets of low income folks. Meats are at record high dollar levels, for example, which can be traced back to the costs of feed, which have been hit hard by a number of other factors. Would you like to list the items that have gotten much less expensive that balance out those two?
No evidence that raising minimum wage reduces jobs? I don't need anyone's study to tell me that I won't be hiring any more minimum wage employees. Here's the problem with minimum wage for those of us who actually hire people - you can only raise the costs of employing low skilled people to the point where it becomes more cost effective to instead divert that money to others. I know what the total cost of employment is for all of my staff. I know what happens when I have to carry the ones that go on federally mandated family and medical leave. At this point, there's no way I'm hiring anyone to sweep up around the office, or file papers or something because it would cost me a lot more than just giving a couple of the others a few hours of overtime. This is why unemployment levels for young people are so high right now.
I don't run a business that relies mostly on low-skill workers though. If I did, and my hourly labor costs suddenly went way up, you know what I'd do? Look for the people that were attracted back into the labor pool by the higher wages. Hint - they would not be young, entry level kids.