By now, the main consequences of minimum wage laws are well known: higher prices and higher unemployment. Yet Democrats continue to inflict them:

Seattle jacked up the minimum wage on all businesses beginning the first of January.

Moonbat congresscritter Pramila Jayapal is delighted:

“Seattle’s minimum wage officially rose to $20.76 per hour — one of the highest minimum wages in the country!” she wrote. “I’m so proud to represent a city that puts workers first, and I’ll keep fighting to ensure we finally pass a minimum wage increase nationwide.”

She wants to do to the whole country what her fellow Seattle kooks have done to their own jurisdiction — namely this:

As the city of Seattle, Washington, hiked minimum wages to $20.76 per hour on New Year’s Day, some businesses had to close their doors, including one restaurant whose owner somehow still supports the new law.

Bebop Waffle Shop owner Corina Luckenbach supports the injurious law for the only possible reason: she is a moonbat.

“I hate to close a safe space for queer people at this time but the money just isn’t there after the minimum wage increase (which I fully support),” she announced…

You can’t make a Marxist omelet without breaking lots of eggs. Marxists often find themselves among the broken eggs.

As for the notion that this tyranny helps workers:

As Seattle ushers in the new year, a growing number of residents are pledging to stop tipping much or even altogether. This movement, gaining traction on Reddit, is a direct response to the city’s escalating minimum wage…

Without tips, servers who once made $40-$50 an hour during busy shifts could find themselves stuck at Seattle’s flat-rate minimum wage if or when tipping culture changes or ends.

But endlessly hiking up minimum wage does achieve the Democrat objective of destroying entry level jobs, thereby helping to keep their voter base on the government dependency track from cradle to grave.

On tips from Gringoman and DCGere.

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