It would be a big selling point with the rank and file. This is all well and good you may say, but what about the minimum wage workers who can't make ends meet now and are receiving over 100 billion annually in welfare transfer payments like earned income credits, housing allowances, food stamps , etc. The answer is he can't. But the proper solution is not to exempt this worker. The proper and only just solution is to insist that all workers be paid a living wage.
All labor has dignity and all workers deserve a decent wage.
And make no mistake about it. We would all benefit. Not only would we save over 100 billion dollars of expenses on our federal treasury we would also gain almost 50 billion dollars in tax revenues. A net saving of 150 billion dollars. This is not a trivial savings.