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EPISODE · May 10, 2025 · 18 MIN

LA's FAILED 48% Wage Hike DOOMS Tourism: $1 BILLION Loss As Hotels Close

from News For Reasonable People · host Sean Reynolds

Another day, another economic disaster brewing in Los Angeles as city officials push a mind-boggling 48% wage hike for tourism workers—right as a billion-dollar budget shortfall looms. Watch as we break down how this well-intentioned but economically illiterate policy threatens to decimate the very industry it claims to help, with hotels already closing and workers losing jobs before the ordinance even passes. We've already seen 23,100 fast food jobs vanish after California's last minimum wage experiment, yet politicians refuse to learn the simple lesson: mandating higher wages without economic reality to support them creates unemployment, not prosperity. Is this deliberate destruction or just stunning incompetence? Either way, the results will be predictable and devastating. Subscribe now for more unfiltered analysis of government policies that sound compassionate but deliver catastrophe.

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