If the public is paying the extra wages, then she has created a negative feedback loop--Wynne taxes the hoi polloi and pays the hoi polloi minimum wage out of the money she gets from that tax. What is the point??? I have a better idea. Double the minimum taxable income, the point at which you have to start paying tax and make up the short fall by increasing taxes for those earning over $250,000. Improves the lives of the working poor a little; doesn't impose any new costs on "business." And begins to tap into the only source of public funds available to us while, at the same time, clawing back some of the excess we pay to senior civil servants and politicos. Perfect.