By John Seiler in The Orange County Register

April 9, 2016

I have dinner once a week with some friends here in Orange County. I set a limit of $20 for beer and food, or $80 a month. When the state minimum wage jumped to $10 an hour from $8 a couple years back, the restaurants increased their prices. So I cut back from a full meal to appetizers. It’s less enjoyment, but, as President John F. Kennedy said, “Life is unfair.”

I’ll have to make further adjustments as California’s minimum wage will rise again, to $15 an hour by 2022. The Register reported that, once the full increase to $15 hits, about 605,000 Orange County workers will get raises, a third of the workforce. Gov. Jerry Brown, who signed the new law, and California legislators who passed it, seem not to care that most folks in the state live on limited incomes. When prices go up, purchases go down.

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