I'm a SMALL business owner.  One of my employees makes $14 an hour, and the other $13.  If the Min Wage goes up, I dont have the money to offset the $4.00+ hike in the minimum wage to those employees.  Now they would be making as much as a new employee with no knowledge on his/her job.  That's not fair, but that would be the only way I could keep my doors open.  The minimum wage is just that, it's a starting wage.  

You do not hire someone for $2240 a month ($14 per hour at 160 hours per month)  only to find out they cut work, call in sick all the time, and they have REALLY poor working skills.  They simply are not worth the money you even paid them for the probationary period!  

It's minimum wage for minimum work.  Leave it that way.