Evidently this is a lesson that needs to be rediscovered by every generation. The lesson is this: When the government gets involved with business and things like the minimum wage, things get more expensive. That’s just the way it almost always is. A politician will make the case for increasing the minimum wage, young voters like the sound of making more money. People who are completely sympathetic to the struggle to make ends meet think it sounds great. Then the government steps in to make the higher hourly wage a reality and suddenly it all goes to shit. That’s what we’re watching play out in California now with the new $20 dollar and hour minimum wage. Things are getting bad, quickly. And they’re getting bad for the people who really need the money. The people who work these very jobs!

We’ll let Jeremy from The Quartering break down the numbers for the epic backfire of the new Cali. policy. I will add this though. It’s not hard to understand but it must need to be said again and again. If someone has a business, like Burger King and they have 30 employees, and the government tells the owner that they must pay everyone more, that quickly turns into a giant amount of money going out the door. The owner (who doesn’t have a huge profit from the Burger King by the way) has to either raise the cost of items on the menu or fire some employees. Or do both things. That’s what’s happening in California right now. Fast food workers are getting laid off. Prices are up and demand is down. Uber eats and Door Dash are taking an incredible beating. The numbers are staggering. So, a few employees are making more money per hour, but how many in California now have no job at all? The problem is now worse. The government got involved and things got worse. This is almost always the case.