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How many times do people around the world have to serve as human guinea pigs in yet another experiment to see if socialism works? Apparently this hasn’t yet been done enough, for we are now just beginning a new attempt to show forth its wonders in New York City, and on the other side of the country, the people of Los Angeles are just finding out yet again that efforts to force economic equality only create more economic inequality. All the past victims of socialism could have told them that before they dived in one more time, but of course, they weren’t listening.
Fox News reported Saturday that “a phased-in minimum wage hike in Los Angeles that will mandate up to $30 per hour for hotel workers, signed into law by mayor Karen Bass, is already causing problems for the hotel industry and putting the squeeze on the working-class demographic that minimum wage laws are purportedly intended to help.”
Well, knock me over with a feather. You mean a law that was supposed to help the little guy ended up hurting that same little guy? Wow, who saw that coming? Only anyone with the slightest awareness of how economics works, and of what people who own businesses generally do when faced with rising costs of doing business. But that apparently leaves out the entire far-left political class of Los Angeles, and of California in general.
Fox noted that Hotel Association of Los Angeles (HALA) “recently commissioned a study that found hotels have eliminated or expect to eliminate 6% of positions, roughly 650 jobs, since the Hotel Worker Minimum Wage Ordinance took effect in September 2025.” Of course. Democrats sell minimum wage hikes to the economically illiterate by claiming that they will help those who are struggling to get by. However, businesses as well as individuals struggle to get by. A business that has a certain amount of money set aside for salaries and then has to increase that amount because of minimum wage hikes is likely to make up for the shortfall, and continue to meet payroll expenses it could barely afford in the first place, by laying off workers.
Thus the whole thing is a nasty trick on lower-wage earners. It promises them a raise, but pays for that raise for a few by throwing others out of their jobs altogether. And so HALA President Dr. Jackie Filla lamented: “The bottom line is the city of Los Angeles has forced a wage and benefits package on hotels that is utterly unaffordable at a time when Californians and Americans are laser focused on affordability.”
Yes. LA’s far-left Mayor Karen Bass “signed the ordinance into law May 27, 2025, after it was approved by the Los Angeles City Council. The measure is often referred to as the “Olympic Wage” in reference to the sporting event being held in Los Angeles in 2028 and will raise pay for hotel and LAX airport workers up to $30 per hour by 2028.”
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࿗Infidel࿘ says
Just like automation has replaced a lot of restaurant jobs, particularly in fast food franchises, hotels too will figure out a way of employing robots instead of people. And once that starts, those jobs are not coming back. In fact, to make things worse, if it has any level of success in LA, other places in the country that don’t have minimum wage will start losing such jobs, as corporates seek to replicate that success elsewhere
Following on to that, Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir, said, “If Silicon Valley believes we’re going to take everyone’s white collar jobs…AND screw the military…If you don’t think that’s going to lead to the nationalization of our technology—you’re retarded”
In short, we’ll see communism feeding on more communism and just expanding itself
David Lakatos says
Wage hikes make everything else go up in price $$$$