Except they wouldn't, because you're not factoring in all of the minimum wage jobs it takes to get that burger out of the field and out the drive through window.
Living wages are for people who earn them. Communism doesn't work.
A large group of economists? How much more delusional can you get?
They predict things in the short term without understanding the long term effects. How'd that stimulus plan work out for those economists (I'm looking at you Krugman)? How about those short term deficits that now add up to Somewhere north of $30 Trillion (off the books debt added)?
You bit hard on the Happy Meal hook because you obviously don't understand basic business, supply chains or logistics. 12% here, 12% there, pretty soon it adds up to essentially killing off the middle class completely. Then you could have the total class warfare you nut jobs obviously want. At least at that point you'd have people willing to actually fight for something on your side.
This is America. It doesn't matter where you're born or who your parents are, your chances of making it here is still better than anywhere else but you actually have to participate. Well, at least for a little while longer. You know, until you self-proclaimed academics leftislate even that away.