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Note that these minimum wage hikes are in urban dumps. Oakland in particular doesn't have an economy of skilled workers where paying them more translates into higher revenue for the State.

Instead, these areas are filled with low skill jobs in bodegas, liquor stores, and nail salons, all perfect for turd world illegal aliens. And the local population can't afford goods or services provided by anyone other than such low-skilled employees.

Raising the minimum wage isn't to increase prices or income tax revenue, it's to incentivize employers to hire illegal aliens under the table.

Look at the paycheck in your hands. The difference between the gross and your take home is what the govt takes. that sum is on a sliding scale, and becomes greater as a per cent of the gross as the gross increases. This occurs regardless of where you live in the state.

Regards the dumps you mention, in CA, most illegals get more living asistance in the way of free med, free health, free housing, free food, free daycare, free school, paid for by those who send in that difference between gross and net.

legislators are simply buying votes, and sticking those same voters with the bill,via higher cost of living, without the voters even realizing it.

Ca legislators do not see (ignore) the difference between legal and illegal workers, indeed, they work tirelessly to erase the line.