California’s list of public policy failures was already long, but hiking its minimum wage to $20 an hour for fast-food workers may belong at the top.
The predictable fallout in lost jobs and higher prices are already being felt, and the flood of residents fleeing the state is poised to accelerate.
California is already home to some of the highest taxes and costs of living in the country, the consequences of failed government policies. A higher minimum wage is more of the same.
Consider California’s “green” energy policies, which have created the highest utility rates in the nation. Instead of rolling back those mandates, the state created a new one: surcharges on utility bills, making the middle class pay more even if they don’t use more.
The overtaxing, overspending, and overregulating by the state government in Sacramento has turned California into…
