Who Benefits From California’s $20 Fast Food Minimum Wage Hike? - Daniel Greenfield

 

by Daniel Greenfield

Socialists.

 

California’s runaway one-party state goes from one disastrous legislative session to another where anything enough leftists back becomes law.

With the state already bleeding small businesses, the $20 fast food minimum wage hike is another bomb tossed at an industry that barely survived the pandemic lockdowns, which shut down a lot of fast food joints while protecting big businesses. In an economy with soaring food prices and reduced consumer spending on eating out (among working-class and lower-middle-class people), the business model doesn’t work and is just leading some places to shut down.

The Fosters Freeze shutdown made the news because it was so public, but it’s hardly alone.

Restaurants will raise prices where they can, but people are already reeling from high places, and eateries were already pumping prices higher to compensate for rising labor costs, food costs, materials costs, and everything else.

And people can only pay so much.

A lot of places are compensating for the minimum wage price hikes by cutting back hours which leaves workers right back where they started, if not even further behind.

Others are closing down and leaving workers with nothing.

So who benefits from this? The Cloward-Piven leftists who use minimum wage hikes to ‘smash capitalism’, shuttering businesses and putting more people out of work.

From the leftist perspective, the goal is to create union jobs, not jobs, and to hurt businesses in order to create a new kind of social economy.

Middle-class franchisees are the problem. Take them out and you take out upward mobility. Then you can segregate the economy into the upper class and the working class. And then wage class warfare.

Gov. Gavin Newsom is just the smirking wine-country face on top of the traditional leftist agenda that is trashing California.

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/who-benefits-from-californias-20-fast-food-minimum-wage-hike/

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