To the editor: Whereas teachers and state officers tout California’s expertise and innovation, they conveniently ignore the harm being performed by Sacramento’s relentless overregulation and misguided wage mandates (“Why corporations born and raised in California are leaving the state,” Aug. 4).
The $20 per hour minimal wage for fast-food staff, imposed final yr, has already been linked to hundreds of layoffs. Simply final month, a Nationwide Bureau of Financial Analysis examine discovered that the state has misplaced 18,000 jobs within the fast-food sector. That’s not a coincidence — it’s a direct results of political selections made with out regard for financial penalties.
Now Los Angeles is pushing the envelope even additional, with resort employee wages set to hit $30 per hour by 2028. Already, traders are backing away from resort initiatives within the area, spooked by unsustainable labor prices and a hostile regulatory local weather. Are you able to blame them?
California politicians appear extra considering scoring headlines than making a secure surroundings for enterprise. The reality is, California is changing into a cautionary story. Though the state nonetheless has pure benefits, these are being squandered by lawmakers extra targeted on appeasing particular curiosity teams than fostering actual financial progress.
Companies aren’t leaving California as a result of they dislike the climate or the folks — they’re leaving as a result of it not is smart to remain. And till our leaders begin listening to job creators as a substitute of simply activists, that development will solely proceed.
Hua Gu, Calabasas
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To the editor: If you (or, in In-N-Out proprietor Lynsi Snyder’s case, your grandparents) set up a billion-dollar firm, it is best to in any case not chunk the hand that made you. On this case, California.
These profitable entrepreneurs and firms are profitable due to their talents, in addition to the colourful tradition and folks in California that help them. Oh, and our spectacular surroundings and climate don’t damage.
Mindy Taylor-Ross, Venice
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To the editor: I certain want, in certainly one of her interviews, somebody would ask Snyder, who donated $2 million to tremendous PAC MAGA Inc., what she thinks of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Division of Homeland Safety brokers carrying masks and neck gaiters. In any case, she forbade In-N-Out staff from carrying masks except they’d a health care provider’s notice.
As she departs for Tennessee, right here’s one former In-N-Out buyer saying, “Bye, Felicia.”
Liz White, Los Angeles
