a $15 minimum wage increase, has a lot of powerful lobbying against it coming into the Republican party. That minimum wage increase will not move the needle in inflection, and it will be a a positive stimulus for the lower wage earners. Tax payers paying welfare to Walmart employees as a result of below livable standard wages is not good economics.

CA - apart from gas taxes at the pump and real state, California has similar prices as the rest of the nation. The major expense in Ca is housing, due to the amount of people that want to live in the state and the restrictive policies to build new housing. I'm very certain that lobbying to restrict new building permits has artificially inflated housing prices and made the cost of living so expensive in Ca not a $15 minimum wage.

That is the truth, political BS aside.