SACRAMENTO'S LATEST BRILLIANT IDEA: PRICING YOU OUT OF EVERYTHING!

California's brain trust, having single-handedly priced residents out of housing, gas, and even basic sanity, has now decided to tackle 'high living costs' by, you guessed it, making everything even more expensive. According to a recent piece over at Noozhawk – which never met a Sacramento talking point it didn't like reprinting – the Golden State's political elite are convinced that mandating higher minimum wages will somehow lead to an economic utopia, rather than precisely what it always leads to: higher prices, fewer jobs, and more businesses fleeing for states where economic principles aren't treated as a communist conspiracy.

It’s almost as if no one in the capitol building has ever run a lemonade stand, let alone a real business. Every time Sacramento demands businesses pay more for labor, those costs magically disappear into thin air, right? Wrong. They get passed on to consumers, slash job opportunities, or force beloved local establishments to shutter their doors entirely. The only thing this 'solution' offsets is the common sense of anyone naive enough to believe it's good for the average Californian, particularly those ambitious enough to want a first job.

The real angle Noozhawk, in its endless pursuit of 'here’s what Sacramento wants you to think,' missed, is that this isn't about helping the working class. It's about virtue signaling while actively accelerating the state's exodus. Every time the cost of doing business in California skyrockets, another U-Haul points east. Pretty soon, the only businesses left will be the ones run by the state, for the state, funded by the ever-shrinking pool of taxpayers they haven't scared off yet. It’s a masterclass in economic self-sabotage, and the bureaucrats are taking credit for it.