Although Seattle has approved a $15/hr minimum wage, greedy bastards in business are still fighting to delay and undermine the policy.

Measures to help working people (more generally, regulation of business) can backfire, but often they are very helpful. However, each time a measure is proposed, the greedy bastards will always come up with an excuse to claim that it will backfire. Occasionally the claim is valid; usually it is bogus.

They construct a bogus claim by cherry-picking the evidence and the arguments, adding some lies when they think they can get away with it. When it becomes clear, later, that the claim was bogus, they pay no penalty.

Therefore, we must never believe claims by a business or its mouthpieces that regulating the business will hurt the public. They are inherently untrustworthy on the matter,

To find out which measures really might backfire, we must get advice from someone they have not corrupted.