Aug. 6, 2025 7 AM PT
To the editor: Whereas lecturers and state officers tout California’s expertise and innovation, they conveniently ignore the harm being completed by Sacramento’s relentless overregulation and misguided wage mandates (“Why companies born and raised in California are leaving the state,” Aug. 4).
The $20 per hour minimal wage for fast-food staff, imposed final 12 months, has already been linked to hundreds of layoffs. Simply final month, a National Bureau of Economic Research study 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 lodge employee wages set to hit $30 per hour by 2028. Already, investors are backing away from lodge tasks within the area, spooked by unsustainable labor prices and a hostile regulatory local weather. Are you able to blame them?
California politicians appear extra fascinated about scoring headlines than making a secure surroundings for enterprise. The reality is, California is turning 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 now 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
..
To the editor: Once you (or, in In-N-Out proprietor Lynsi Snyder’s case, your grandparents) set up a billion-dollar firm, it is best to as a minimum not chunk the hand that made you. On this case, California.
These profitable entrepreneurs and firms are profitable due to their skills, in addition to the colourful tradition and folks in California that help them. Oh, and our spectacular surroundings and climate don’t harm.
Mindy Taylor-Ross, Venice
..
To the editor: I positive want, in certainly one of her interviews, somebody would ask Snyder, who donated $2 million to super PAC MAGA Inc., what she thinks of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Division of Homeland Safety brokers sporting masks and neck gaiters. In spite of everything, she forbade In-N-Out staff from sporting masks unless they had a doctor’s note.
As she departs for Tennessee, right here’s one former In-N-Out buyer saying, “Bye, Felicia.”
Liz White, Los Angeles
