Laughable right-wing BS.

It's been deliberately held down for decades. if anything, it should be MORE than $15/hour due purely to inflation and the economic index.

https://www.epi.org/publication/minimum-wage-testimony-feb-2019/

We can afford to pay the lowest-paid workers more than they were paid 50 years ago

'Raising the national minimum wage is well overdue. Workers today who are paid the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour are, after adjusting for inflation, paid 29 percent less than their counterparts 50 years ago. This is despite the fact that the economy’s capacity to deliver higher wages has doubled in the last 50 years, as measured by labor productivity, or the amount of output produced by workers. As Figure A shows, had the minimum wage kept pace with labor productivity growth since 1968, this year it would be more than $20 per hour. Today, however, a single parent earning the current federal minimum wage does not earn enough through full-time work to bring his or her family above the federal poverty line.'