The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different outcome.
In California, Democrats raised the minimum wage for fast food workers to $20 (except for those who work at Panera Bread, because the company owners are buddies with Gavin Newsom), and the completely predictable outcomes happened almost immediately: hours were cut, workers were laid off, restaurants closed, and prices of fast food skyrocketed.
But Democrats never learn, and California Democrats are a special brand of stupid, so the L.A. City Council just approved a $30 minimum wage for airport and hospitality workers in time for the Olympic Games:
LA City Council Votes 12-3 to kill the hospitality industry in Los Angeles with a $30/Hour Minimum Wage by 2028.
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) May 16, 2025
This doesn’t include an additional $8.35 an hour for healthcare costs employers will be required to pay.
People will lose their jobs
Rates will skyrocket.
Video… pic.twitter.com/9gvnigaGNV
Will the city -- which is slow-walking the wildfire rebuild -- even be ready to host the games in three years?
If it is, good luck finding affordable hotels with actual staff.
Wow they really hate California.
— 🍕Jessica Carderara🍕 (@MAGApizzy) May 16, 2025
Yes, they do.
$30? Has anyone else been there lately? It's expensive. They should have made it $130. The council failed the city.
— Congrats! 👏 (@mckinleyta) May 16, 2025
We detect sarcasm.
But there's a point here: if we need a living wage, why stop at $20 or $30? Why not $100? Why not $500?
Mid level hotels only have a profit margin around 15%.
— Fit American 🇺🇸 (@fitAmerican60) May 16, 2025
$30 wage will bankrupt them.
If minimum is $30, that means all supervisors, managers and directors will have to get an increase too, to put them above minimum.
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Like the City Council cares about economic realities.
Why does LA hate employers and employees? They are about to get fewer of both. The poor will be hurt most.
— Philo Publius Americanus (@Rog973521) May 16, 2025
As with all Democratic policies, poor people suffer the most.
They aren't raising minimum wages. They are making jobs worth below that wage illegal.
— John (@RealJohnShoe) May 16, 2025
Another way to put it, and a more truthful one, too.
Obvious outcomes:
— Can of Spam (@iDoLikeSpam) May 16, 2025
* Fewer jobs in the industry
* Higher workloads and worse working conditions for those who remain
* Quality of service plummets as staff as over-stretched
* Likely increase in under-the-table work for low-level manual jobs
Just as L.A. is going to host the entire freaking world for the Olympic Games.
Good work, Democrats.
QUICK REMINDER
— Kevin Dalton (@TheKevinDalton) May 16, 2025
23,100 California fast food workers lost their jobs when Gavin Newsom raised their minimum wage to $20 an hour.
How can anyone think this will be any different?
Two weeks of Olympics in 2028 will not right this ship https://t.co/EIUhdFFd6t
The L.A. City Council looked at that and said, 'Rookie numbers. Hold our beer.'
Barbara Lee believes $50 will do it in Oakland.
— Living In CA 🌴☀️🇺🇸 (@1LivingInCA) May 16, 2025
Democrats are the stupidest people. 🤷🏼♀️ https://t.co/JeTVAtamBj
She does. We told you about that here.
Where are all of the people? Won't need a hotel if you don't have any visitors except for illegals. https://t.co/18OLM9cZgi
— Ariel (@ArielBos1) May 16, 2025
The City Council will raise taxes on businesses to pay hotels to house illegals.
Problem solved.
Not.
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