It's not that it "puts pressure on employers", it's the unaddressed point in my post above, that what minimum wage laws actually are is the prohibition of all jobs paying less than the minimum. Since some jobs are not WORTH that, measured by how much economic value they produce compared to the alternatives, then those jobs will be replaced by the alternative or eliminated. A minimum wage law can't change the fundamental economics of what a piece of labor is actually worth, because there are always alternatives.

My other point is why AREN'T people proposing $100/hr minimum wage laws? It's because everyone intuitively understands that there is not enough profit in a gas station, for example, to pay the cashier $100/hour. This exact same phenomenon exists at lower levels of pay, it's just not as obvious.

Jim