San Francisco, passing a $15-an-hour minimum wage law, is predictably losing fast food joints at a phenomenal rate.  After all, when the price of a burger reaches that of a steak, burgers lose out.  Now the genii in government ponder a law requiring workers to eat out – that is, to leave work to eat somewhere else.  That won't help, either, since people can always brown-bag it. The lefty knuckleheads in San Fran are discovering that their socialist paradise gets farther away every time they try to short-circuit supply and demand. Like it or not, believe it or not, God set up the world to operate according to logical principle.  Higher costs, such as those for labor, drive up the price of goods and services.  That's not hard to understand if you live in the real world.  Even chimpanzees go elsewhere if a leopard lives in the banana tree, making a banana from that tree too costly. Chimpanzees are smarter...(Read Full Post)