Opinion: California’s progressive leaders ruin everything they touch
Too often progressive politicians implement bad economic policies for the sake of justice or equality or equity or whatever is the buzzword of the week, yet they simply end up hurting those they claim to help while advancing their own political careers.When Democrats in the California Legislature passed a farmworker-overtime bill in 2016, they argued it was a matter of equality, that money wasn’t everything.
Opponents predicted the additional labor costs would actually force farmers to cut hours to make expenses. In 2016, the Western Growers Association released a survey of growers which found that 80% of farms expected to have to cut back on hours as a result of the overtime law and the $15 minimum wage.
The energy industry is not entirely gone, but the state has become increasingly reliant upon out-of-state and even out-of-country products that are subject to volatile prices and are produced often with little concern for the environment and with sometimes abhorrent treatment of employees.
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