This will accelerate the trend toward automation of more business functions, eliminating more and more jobs. Every job has an economic value associated with it. If the fully-loaded cost to perform a job doesn’t warrant the return the owner will receive, then the job is eliminated. If the cost of an employee exceeds the cost of an alternative method of performing the same business function, the job will be eliminated.
All laws and regulations like this do is force more jobs underground (cash only); increase imports of less-expensive foreign goods; and increase unemployment among the young, the minorities, and the (already) poor.
Ronald Reagan expressed it well: “Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it”.
That, of course, would be considered a personal attack by a dedicated liberal.
Facts, reason, common sense, and Econ 101 simply do not enter into a discussion (shortly to be come a viscous argument) as far as a liberal is concerned. They have been told, likely by Bill Moyers on PBS, that such things are facetious and are Right Wing talking points, like the US Constitution ...