One of the major causes of suicides, divorce, broken families, etc. in our country is financial burden. Raising wages and taxes has only caused the financial burden to grow for to many. While so many are barely alive due to cost of living. Too many are begging for free money. Raising wages/taxes for the housing market, is similar to gold/silver. You raise wages/taxes, to make it easier to pay for living expenses. But the economy keeps it from happening by raising cost of rent, utilities, and home values..
Cap the living expense rate in America, freeze the minimum wage, and stop handing out free money to people who won't do their part to earn it either, when they are capable of doing so.