The laws of economics are similar to the laws of physics, they can’t be broken. For economics, the driving force is simple mathematics. For my whole life, liberals have continually beat the drum for a higher minimum wage counting on the fact that the average Joe just doesn’t understand the implications of raising wages. When I started working the minimum wage was $1.00 per hour, not because government said so but because the job market said so. More about that later. In Montana before COVID, the minimum wage was about $8.00 per hour. In 2023, it will be near $10.00 per hour. This year the brain trust in California is proposing $22.00 per hour.