You mean use the heavy hand of government to MANDATE a higher wage on a job that isn't worth it.

Sorry, gotta disagree with that one.  It's the worker's responsibility to do the things necessary to find a job that pays what they need.  Not the government's.  

And BTW, I "allow" the marketplace to have lots of living wage jobs.  What you want is to DISALLOW the marketplace from offering any jobs that are worth less, even though there's millions of workers that don't support a household.