The Coming Minimum Wage Catastrophe

The Left's destructive push for a $15 an hour minimum wage threatens to make the American fast-food worker extinct while driving up the price of burgers and other dietary staples relied on by low-income consumers. It's actually a highly effective job-creation program--for those who manufacture robots and the touch-screen point-of-sale terminals that replace the comparatively expensive human help. White Castle, Carl's Jr., Hardee's, McDonald's and plenty of other fast-food chains are already considering or making the move to get rid of their frontline employees. The current feel-good push for a $15 an hour minimum wage has nothing to do with helping workers and everything to do with advancing the goals of the left wing, especially the labor movement. It's a vote-buying scam that moves money around on an Alinskyite chess board. The minimum wage has become a "motherhood" issue for the Left in recent years. It gets fuzzy-thinking bleeding-heart voters to the polls the way that opposition to same-sex marriage used to get conservative voters to the polls.