Well the downside is they would lose a tiny insignificant amount of profit as they would no longer be allowed to abuse their workforce quite so much. If they actually sat down and did the maths they would work out that it isn’t really worth fighting against it. But a lot of Republicans don’t like it on principle.

That’s why they always come up with hand wavy arguments about the need to incentivise work. You can always see them a mile off because they’re the type that keep yelling about how minimum wage should not be a livable wage, because it discourages people to advance.