Ah, the law of unintended consequences, also known as “The Clueless, Pandering Democrats Bone Working Stiffs and Business Owners Yet Again Maxim” is fixin’ to strike another educational blow that will be ignored.
The overwhelming number of lemmings good citizens in California, who elected a legislature and re-elected governor hell-bent on destroying what was left of their great state whilst wringing every last drop of blood out of the few productive folks who were either inexplicably willing to remain or involuntarily trapped there, are about to experience another self-induced convulsion in the economy.
This gem of a pay boost – a $20 hr minimum wage set to go into effect as of April 2024 – is a bit of an outlier. Yes, it’s state law, but it’s not the “state” minimum wage (set to hit $16 shortly). It’s actually two separate categories that had their own…