Funny, then, that California, where there is no separate tipped minimum wage, still has restaurants—and in fact the NRA itself projects “over the next decade, employment in the industry will grow by 10.6 percent in California.”
As we’ve noted before, the political thinking behind opposing minimum wage hikes is ridiculous—raising the minimum wage is very popular. But their policy reasoning? It’s also terrible. Very bad. Do not listen to them. Let them cry about it and then leave Congress in four years for a gig at Third Way. They’ll be happier that way.