Just about everything has become significantly more expensive in Joe Biden’s America.
Consumers have had to find ways to cut costs, often trimming out expenses such as dining out.
And McDonald’s just had to make this painful decision in this liberal hotspot.
California’s latest anti-business policy has forced many businesses to make painful decisions
Radical Democrats have controlled the California lawmaking process for decades now.
Attacking business owners, taxpayers, and employees has become a top priority for lawmakers in the Golden State, passing one anti-business measure after another.
Spearheaded by Governor Gavin Newsom, California recently implemented a minimum wage hike for fast food workers, bringing their minimum wages to $20 an hour.
Almost immediately, fast food restaurants started closing down left and right, citing high labor costs.
In many cases, fast food restaurants operate on razor-thin profit margins, meaning that exorbitant increases in labor costs or any other cost can have a crippling effect.
Just recently, a McDonald’s at the Stonestown Galleria shopping mall in San Francisco announced their intention to close after operating at that location for over 30 years.
In a posted statement to customers on the door of the restaurant, owner Scott Rodrick wrote, “It has been a pleasure for my entire team and I to serve the 19th Avenue and Ingleside neighborhoods for more than 30 years.”
“All of our valued team members have been offered opportunities to continue working with my restaurant company or at other nearby McDonald’s,” the distraught restaurant owner added.
While speaking to California’s ABC7 News, Rodrick revealed the causes for the recent closure, citing the minimum wage hike and high property costs.
These factors, along with sky-rocketing crime rates, have forced countless business owners like Rodrick to run for the hills.
The Bay Area has seen an especially alarming exodus of businesses leaving the area, leaving for parts of the country that have friendly economic policies.
Yet, many Democrats have signaled their support for federal policies that would substantially increase the minimum wage.
Economic experts warn that artificially increasing wages can facilitate inflation and transfer costs from businesses to consumers.
This can partly explain why fast food prices have skyrocketed all over America, with a simple Big Mac meal from McDonald’s costing upwards of $15 after tax in many places.
Democrats will not rest until California’s anti-business policies reach the rest of America
Although California’s disastrous policies have destroyed jobs and businesses, many lawmakers want to take these failed policies and apply them to the rest of the country.
This would have devastating effects on the economy, especially at a time when inflation cripples the bottom lines of millions of Americans.
Whether it is minimum wage hikes, giving union officials mid-boggling power, or pro-crime policies, the radical left has made it clear that they do not stand on the side of business owners and working Americans.
With this in mind, it should come as no surprise that poll after poll shows that the majority of Americans do not trust Joe Biden on this issue.
Stay tuned to Blue State Blues for any updates to this ongoing story.
