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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: DC Mayor FORCED to REPEAL Minimum Wage Law as Restaurants COLLAPSE | Taxpayers Pay the Price
Description: DC's progressive minimum wage experiment just imploded spectacularly, forcing even Democrat Mayor Bowser to beg for a repeal. Watch as we expose how the city's Initiative 82 has devastated local restaurants, with 70% cutting hours or laying off staff and a record 74 closures in 2024 alone. The same politicians who pushed for "economic justice" are now scrambling as businesses can't absorb a 25-50% labor cost increase on already razor-thin margins. Is anyone surprised that artificially manipulating market wages leads to disaster? Will other blue cities learn this $15/hour lesson before their restaurant scenes collapse too? Subscribe and share to expose how these "...