The reason is that when an employer saves money by paying a substandard wage, the rest of us taxpayers have to step in to provide housing, food, healthcare and education subsidies
The employer banks the profit from low wages and the taxpayer makes up the difference
Why do "the rest of us taxpayers have to step in to provide housing, food, healthcare and education subsidies?"
Under what law do you derive this necessity? Is this one of those feel good liberal things? Where does the Constitution guarantee equal distribution of wealth?
You said, "the employer banks the profit from low wages and the taxpayer makes up the difference.." Employers set wages and prices based on consumer demand, employee demand, and competition. Why do you expect your employer to "donate" extra wages to you? Don't like it? Start your own business and pay everyone 6figures to flip burgers.
What company is paying their employees too little?
You want to increase American wages? You'll need to inflate the cost of imports. How? import taxes/duties... Result? Reduced exports when they do the same and increased cost at the register.
Under what law? The laws that our duly elected officials have passed to ensure that no person in this country will suffer
Employers compete in an artificial economy where the taxpayer makes up for his substandard pay.
Any employer whose full time employees need to be supported by the taxpayer is being paid too little
I see, so when the government takes money out of my paycheck for "redistribution purposes," my families' suffering due to said theft is ok because it's being use to reduce the suffering of someone else who does not work because they can't make enough money due to low wages being paid for flipping burgers? Gotcha. You call that a law. I call it socialism, aka. theft for the purpose of buying votes.
Your theory that "Employers compete in an artificial economy where the taxpayer makes up for his substandard pay" indicates you believe employers are somehow benefiting from taxpayer subsidies. ??? The VAST majority of welfare programs are for folks that don't work, don't have any income whatsoever. Most welfare programs require you to be earning little to no income. They take the jobs if they take one, that we used to give to high schoolers so that they can continue to earn less than the government maximum to receive benefits.
Or do you think we should pay folks 50k + benefits to bag groceries so they can live in a luxury apt off welfare?