Fixed it. They know exactly what they're doing. Put more people on the dole and raise the taxes of those precious $15 an hour workers to pay for it. Nobody wins, everybody loses. Status quo. Like Mencken said, "Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."
Well, the important thing is the ruling elite got to virtue signal each other. Who gives a f’ about the actual worker thrown out of work by the $15 minimum.
AOC’s old bar closed because of minimum wage increases. Maybe all of the unemployed workers should become congressmen.
It is nor unintended consequences. The Democrats get to claim credit for increasing the minimum wage while, at the same time, forcing more people on welfare dependency programs. The Rats get more people to vote for them and supporting larger government programs.
I’ve seen once busy restaurants and bars from before the minimum wage was voted on and raised in AZ to now practically empty with the servers and bartenders looking for other work due to lack of tips and business because now the food and drink prices have sometimes doubled preventing many from coming in at all.
Many tried to warn the people but all they could see is a pay raise; not the layoffs, not the lack of business, and not the restaurant closings so the few jobs in the field available just got more competitive. Once thriving bartenders and waitstaff are putting personal ads on Facebook looking for weed pulling day jobs just to make a few dollars.
The irony is no one was helped with the wage increase because it was across the board so all prices on everything went up. What little, if any, raise per week in pay was gobbled up by the higher prices but those, like seniors living on low fixed incomes, are having to do with even less than before.
This isn’t something that can be rolled back either. We are now stuck with this very bad law and unintended consequences.
Oh no, what will AOC do when she loses her House seat?
It’s been a failure from all the previous leftist run cities as a lab experiment. The lunatic leftist elites don’t let facts and logic stop them from pushing their agenda and business/ jobs be damned.
This is Econ 101 text book stuff I learned in the 60’s. Guess the new generation of political scientist thought Econ was not important enough to learn, or maybe they didn’t learn to read being brought up on Facebook and all that social media crap and all.
I believe the same thing happened in Seattle, where this $15/hour minimum wage insanity got started.