"Handing over responsibility on the minimum wage to states makes sense on a lot of levels. Individual states already have the power to regulate their own minimum wages, although there currently isn’t a great incentive to do so since the federal government is trying to control the minimum wage for the entire nation. Encouraging states to address their own minimum wages would offer a major boost to employees around the country; workers subject to both federal and state rates are 'entitled to the higher of the two minimum wages,' according to Cornell Law School."