Because wage increases don't apply to everybody, and the higher wages are in the form of cost increases to the CONSUMER rather than business owners. For example, I know someone who works a pretty intensive job making roughly $30 an hour (GROSS, mind you), and was previously paying $26 an hour to an home health agency, who paid their employee $12. To increase the employee's pay to $15, the company automatically began charging the customer $29/hr. Am I the only one seeing that, no matter what, the consumers and the workers are always the ones losing? Ultimately the people at the top never have to suffer. I think we need a bigger change than higher pay for some.