California Now Requires Restaurants Pay $20 an Hour to Flip Burgers

Commentary While in college I sat on the university’s committee for on-campus student employees. The question on the table was whether to increase student wages at places like the bookstore, food service, and teacher assistants. Since I represented the students, naturally I advocated for higher wages. The left-leaning administrators and professors on the committee pushed back, arguing that higher wages would mean fewer hours and jobs for students. Of course, their argument made sense. Even university leftists understand basic economic principles. I did not know how to respond. As I recall, the best I could muster was, “So be it.”...