Attention. You're listening to the Tod Huff Radio Show, America's home for conservative not bitter talk radio. Be advised that the content of this program has been documented to prevent and even cure liberalism, and listening may cause you to lean to the right. Here's your conservative but not bitter host, Todd Huff. All right, my friends, there we go, there we go. Welcome to today's program. I am your host, the ever so lovable Todd Huff.
Email. So do you want to be part of the conversation toddatodhoffshow dot com. We can also text three one seven two one zero twenty eight point thirty. I said in a in a previous hour of the program, we were wanting to get to, well, the hour of the program where we talked about let's see the simulations that had been run by Bloomberg showing that the
United States. Of course, we knew this was on an unsustainable path towards fis school just a nightmare federal debt unsustainable, which of course we knew that, but now we know statistically that it's arguably even worse than we thought. If I don't know if it could be that, but we use that to talk about the problem the reason that we're in this mess. It's not our system of government, it's the people that are making decisions in our government.
And we went through that. I had intended to also get in that particular hour. I had intended to also get to the California minimum wage law, since we were talking about economics and so forth finance here in this country, and so I want to talk about that today. There's also a Wall Street Journal poll that shows Biden trailing in six of the seven swing states, even though Jill Biden, doc excuse me, doctor Jill is out there on television
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I want to talk about that today because again it kind of that this conversation kind of dovetails with our conversation about the US debt and the simulations run by Bloomberg, which I reference here at the top of this hour. So let's look at this, this minimum wage law. This is in California. Now, I'm going to read to you from a New York Post editorial written by the Post Editorial Board because New York wants to implement the same minimum wage
laws or very similar minimum wage laws as California did. So headline here California fast food minimum wage laws already a disaster, and New York wants some too. California's absurd fast food wage law has been in at for less than a week and it's already made prices hotter than a friolator. The law mandates. So this is California law. It mandates a twenty dollars an hour minimum wage for fast food workers. Now what's interesting here is that there was a carve
out. There was a carve out, there was an exemption. Now, this is a campaign donor of Gavin Newsom, this is a business buddy of Gavin Newsom. The carve out, the carve out was for restaurants. Let me make sure I get this right. You did not have to be you didn't have to meet the minimum wage law requirements in California. If at the time the law was passed, you were cooking. I'm trying to think of I'm trying to find the exact wording here, but basically, if your restaurant
made fresh bread, made fresh bed bizarre. This is another there's a link to a previous editorial from The New York Past and it says this that there was a carve out in the law custom made for Panera franchise billionaire Greg Flynn, a campaign donor and former business partner of Governor Gavin Newsom. I'm sure that that is totally a coincidence. The bizarre exception for restaurants that bake and
serve bread as a standalone item. That was the carve out. So if you bake and serve bread in California as a standalone item, you do not have to abide by the twenty dollars an hour minimum wage law for fast food restaurants. And that basically, I don't know if there's anyone else but that we the writers here believe, And again I don't want to say with absolute certainty, but that basically seems to mean that it's just Panera bread. So
the carve out was And what does it have to do with anything? I mean, that's that's the question, right, What does that have to do with anything? Why does that impact whether or not a restaurant should have to follow minimum wage laws? So everybody fast food industry makes twenty dollars an hour in California. Now unless you bake and serve bread as a standalone item, which of course just means just means that this is the campaign donor and the
business former business partner of Gavin Newsom. That's who this that's who it is just happens to be. What a series of coincidences to arrive at this point. So let's put that aside for a moment and let's look at the impact the impact to food prices, fast food prices in the People's Republic of California. So the one example there was a big fish meal at Burger King fifty three percent higher after the law had passed than before the law had passed.
There is a picture here of some prices on in and out Burger which is a great place, by the way, I went. I've been a couple of times. There's one in I went to one in Los Angeles with a friend who got married out there, and I think I've been to one in Vegas. They don't have them here, at least they don't think they do
in my neck of the woods. But just a great story, by the way, that's just a well run organization, some really strong principles in an out Burger, but their prices have have gone up twelve percent increase it looks like on the double whopper at Burger King. So the point is this is obviously going to impact This is obviously going to impact food prices. I mean it's it's it's inevitable. How much is still yet to be to be seen.
So, but let's talk in general about what happens here. Why does the government Why is the government coming in and mandating a certain minimum wage for a certain type of worker. What gives them the authority or the right to do that? Is the is a just a theoretical question, a philosophical question here as to the role of government, Well, Todd, if the government
didn't intervene, businesses would pay the least amount that they possibly could. That I mean going to be true, businesses will pay the least amount that they can. They have to keep their expenses down because customers are going to want to buy food at the cheapest prices that they can. It's kind of the name of the game. But what's interesting is businesses are also not stupid.
Businesses know that, first of all, if they want to keep and retain, attract and retain talent, they are going to have to pay much higher
prices, much higher wages than even minimum wage businesses, folks. Businesses when they're hiring positions that are they look at the value of the position, they look at the overall value that that position helps them to generate, and they come to an idea of what the value of that position is, or they they come to an idea on what it's going to take to attract someone to
do that job and to do it well. Now, fast food workers are different in the sense that, again the issue here is the more skilled that the labor or the more skilled that someone has to be to perform a job. Or if you have someone, let's say, in a sales role, someone who's very proficient in their skill set, if they can bring in multiple times more revenue than someone else who's just okay or not very good at their job, then that can warrant that can warrant a change in what the value
is as well. But no matter how we slice it and dice it, something is not worth something because some third party steps in and says that it is. Businesses have costs. Businesses have to have to balance the cost to
provide the product. In this case, fast food fast food products. They have to factor in the cost of getting the ingredients, a cost of building and maintaining that brick and mortar location, the cost of attracting customers to come in, the cost of running that business, and then that includes the labor to provide the product to the customer. And then they also have to say, what can we sell that for? What is someone going to pay for
that product? And then say what sorts of margins are we going to be able to have, Because if there's no way to make money as an investment on a particular restaurant franchise, or if it's a corporate store, if there's no way to make money, then there's no reason to have the store to have the restaurant. And so there's there's this. The business is the one that's doing all the balancing, right. The business has to say, I have to move the product at this cost. I have to secure the cost
of goods here. I've got to bring in, you know, recruit and train and bring in labor to do this. And they have to then say, once my costs are paid and my product is sold and everything's cleared out, I have X amount of money in the bank. Every month, and if they can't get to a certain amount to where it's a reasonable return on their investment, the restaurant just won't be it will not exist. And so, but what's happened in California, and by the way, has he happened
elsewhere as well? The government has created this problem to begin with, because why does the government think that the least amount of money someone should make for working a faster restaurant is twenty dollars? Why twenty dollars? Why not thirty dollars? Why not forty? Why not fit? Why not five thousand?
Because see, when you ask that question, you realize, you realize that there is a point that it's absurd and it's not reasonable to pay someone five thousand dollars an hour to make hamburgers, because they will the person running the restaurant, the owner of that restaurant, will never recoup the cost to provide that product. And so everyone knows this. But now the question becomes, well, can we squeeze the business owner the restaurant tour for a little bit
more? Why does he or she need to pocket that extra a little bit that should go to the worker. Well, pause for a moment, Why is this the government's responsibility. You do know, by the way, that the vast majority of people make well more than minimum wage. And that's because what we talked about earlier, it is because the position is more valuable than
the minimum wage. A company realizes to bring in the best people, they have to put together the best packages, the best incentives for bringing them in, pay and benefits, whatever else they come up with. And so this doesn't even affect most people, which says that businesses, while they're certainly trying to keep their costs down, they have to. That is a requirement of business. They can't pay more than they should or they can't stand business not.
If they do that enough times across the board, it will destroy the ability for that business to generate a profit. And so the question is the question is if minimum wage law is what ensures businesses pay their employees to live a living wage, as we like to say, if people are being paid much more than minimum wage and the vast majority of instances, then does that not blow out of the water this idea that says businesses will only pay the
bare minimum. Businesses want to pay the least amount of labor for labor and for you know for staffing and so forth as possible, but they don't want to pay less than they should. In fact, zig Ziggler an individual that I have a well he's passed away, but I had a huge amount of admiration for him, a wonderful human being. He said, wouldn't you agree that it's better to pay a little bit more than you expected than less than you should, Because if you pay less than you should, you lose your
entire investment. But if you pay a little bit more than you expected, maybe it's gonna hurt a little bit, but you're getting what you need so that you can probably over time you're going to get even more than you thought you would if you hire the right people. So this all happens without the
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with electric utilities. One of the reasons why there are so many fires in California is because there are they're not allowed to properly def well properly clean up the areas around power lines. Do controlled burns and so forth, and so what happens is there's overgrowth, there's some dead trees in that overgrowth. Power line will snap in some of these storms. California is a huge, huge state. The sparks from the power lines will ignite and start a fire,
or maybe it's a lightning strike. But the bottom line, the government prevented the well certain activities that would prevent creating a tinderbox in California, and so they have more forest fires. The government comes in and mandates all sorts of things that make the cost of operating a business more expensive. So when it's more expensive, everything goes up. Everything goes up for the consumer, including
the cost of living. You've got housing going up astronomically, so then you have all sorts of welfare programs or entitlements that are provided in the state of California, and all these things drive things the cost up. It makes it harder for businesses to balance the cost and revenue, you know, in and out ebbs and flows, and so that impacts their ability to hire people and
impacts their ability on what they can pay. It creates a problem that it begins to be magnified, and then the government steps in and says, well, you got to do this. Why aren't you paying your people more? You should pay them twenty dollars an hour, and so there will be unintended consequences of this. The government creates the problem then tells the private sector you've got to fix it. You're the one private sector. You're the one restauranteur.
You're the individual who has to carry the financial burden here, not us, not me. Right, it's your problem, you deal with it. We create it. Now, they won't admit that they that they created it, but they've created a tremendous amount of problems by government overreach, big bloated, out of control government. I mean, just look at some of the cities out there. San Francisco. San Francisco is a mess, tremendous homeless
problem. We had an app that was created because people were defecating all over the streets of San Francisco and they wanted to map out where it was. There was literally an app that provided that service. I mean, it is completely a disaster in the state of California. And who do they blame for it? They blame they blame the individual, They blame the business. They're not doing their fair share. They'll say businesses are being greedy and so forth.
But businesses have to make money to pay the incredible amount of taxes that they have to pay out there thirteen percent, by the way, thirteen point three. I believe state income tax government has created this problem. They are not the solution. They are the problem. I've got to take a break
with my friends. Sit tight back in just a minute. That my friends, so, I want to continue this conversation about minimum wage laws, how the government creates the problem and then puts the burden to solve the problem on the private business. And this just goes on and on, and it's amazing to me how many people cheer on, cheer on the government. They have it in their mind that government is this unbiased, fair minded group of people
that's never in the wrong. And in fact, the same people who demonize corporations. And look, there are some bad things that happen in corporations. I'm not denying that for a moment, But there are things that the American people can do, and honestly, things that free markets do to ensure that we have competitive forces that keep them from abusing abusing their power. I mean,
if there's competition in the market. They can't just go out and charge eighty five dollars for a gallon of milk if I can go down the street and get it for three forty nine or whatever it is. So, but the same people who demonize these executives who are in the private industry, these corporate executives and so forth corporations, as soon as these people are appointed by some government agents, by some politician to run some government agency, suddenly they
find no problem with this. And ironically, it should be more concerning when these people are in government, because government is force. There is no competitor.
There are no free market forces to ensure competition. Take the post office for example, and just talking about this with my father the other day, there's no competitive forces in the post office, so customer service can be as bad as it can possibly be. And unless someone up the chain of command, here's enough about it to just want it to stop hearing about the problem. There's not going to to be anybody that's going to lose their job over
this, especially when they're unionized. And so you can see the problems that exist here. Government is this massive bureaucratic red tape nightmare that candidly creates environments and problems for environments to exist in and thrive in. And then they say to the public, to the private sector, you go out and you finished it. You fix it. I should say, you fix the problem.
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created by the federal government. It's a federal government problem. No other state can cause this, and no other state government can cause this, no business can cause this, no person can cause this, well unless they're working in the government. The cause of this is federal government monetary policy. Inflation exists when more dollars are created than actual value of economic output that exists in our
economy today, and so the federal government is solely responsible for that. So the inflationary pressures that have been created on residents of California and residents of all states for that matter, is not the problem of the state government. That's
not Gavin Newsom's fault. That is the problem of the jokers and clowns running the show in Washington, DC. Federal spending has gotten to such a level, and instead of directly raising taxes, what they do is they increase the money supply, and then it's a backdoor tax on the American consumer, on the American business, on the American taxpayer. And so that part is not the fault of the state. However, what is the fault of the state.
The fault of the state are some of the things we talked about last segment. The fault of the state are some of the state welfare programs, are the state entitlements. The added cost for being a sanctuary state or a sanctuary city. These things are the responsibilities of the state or in some cases of the municipalities, the city governments, and so these things create conditions whereby you can't make it in California. You can't make it in California without a
certain amount of money. Amount of money in fact, I saw. I saw now in order to qualify well, to be able to afford a house in many states now you need to be making six figures. And so in California it's even much worse, especially if you're along the coast or in some of those expensive, expensive areas. So it's a mess that's been created by
government in general, they point the finger. They place the blame on individuals, on companies, They say, you're being greedy, you're not paying your fair share, and oh, by the way, you need to start paying twenty dollars an hour for this particular position. And what happens is now you
have pressures. I don't know if you've been into a fast food restaurant recently, but a lot of these places, I mean the older generations are going to have problems ordering food because you walk in there and a lot of these places will just have kiosks. Now you have a kiosk where you've got to
put your order in. No one even comes to the counter to take your order if you're of course walking into the restaurant, so you place your order there because again they've determined that it helps save in long term labor costs if they invest in this technology and don't have to pay the labor and don't have to worry about people not showing up, and don't have to worry about a whole litany of things that happen if you have to fire someone or they don't
do their job, or they create problems with the customer, whatever. And so this is what these again, you could say the unintended consequences of these laws create. So then you're going to have a group of people you have a type of job that is good for, you know, young people to have that you've eliminated. So now what are young people going to do about getting in just getting some work, experience, learning the process of earning their
own money creates all sorts of problems. And if you don't make your own money, who does the government tell you to look to to provide, you know, provide you with what you need. Well, you turn to the government, and this is just a massive mess, and it's it's spreading, by the way, New York wants to do it as well. Anyway, I just wanted to talk about that a little bit today, in the time we have remaining. I do want to shift gears a little bit. Do
you want to shift gears a little bit? I want to talk about a recent Wall Street Journal poll see that shows President Trump leading Biden leading Biden in six of the seven well six of seven swing states. The only swing state that Biden was leading in out of these you know the course swing states. So they were the swing states, Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, Nevada,
Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Wisconsin. Wisconsin's the only swing state that Biden had to lead over Trump, and I believe that was a three point lead. Now, now this is in polling where third party candidates are involved. So Biden Trump is ahead in the other states by anywhere from two to eight percentage points. Biden is ahead in three by three percentage points. In Wisconsin, however, if you take independent or third party candidates off of the ballot.
If you do that, then Trump and Biden are tied. This is bad news for Biden, absolutely terrible news for the Biden campaign. But that is the reality in the lay of the land. The other thing I want to talk about, well, this raises questions about something that I've I'm a little bit familiar with, and I just want to get my head around a little bit more before I talk about it in detail with you. But I know enough about it to at least mention it to you and put it on
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and it just gets me to wondering. It gets me to wondering, is that just her trying to change the narrative. Is it her trying to just deny that this is in fact a problem for President Joseph Robinette Bribery or does she know something that we don't know? And that's the part, that's the part of this that really honestly scares me, because you begin to wonder, You begin to wonder, what does she know, possibly that the rest of
us don't know, and what are the ramifications of that. Now, I'm I'm not saying that she's even if she does quote unquote know it, I'm not saying that she's right, and I'm not saying that she's not just trying to re redirect the narrative here. But I do I want to play this soundy she's on CBS Mornings. I don't know she's on here. What is this Teacher of the Year's surprise, First Lady Jill Biden, that should say doctor Jill. First Lady doctor Jill Biden drops by to honor teacher Missy Testerman.
So they're all on there having a good old time. She's teachers being you know, someone from the ruling class has taking a moment to step down from their throne to to just meet the common peasants. This the common average people like us. And so she's on TV here, but she's asked, doctor Jill is asked about these polls, and she denies that President Biden is trailing. So I'm going to play this really quickly and then talk about something.
Just mention something to you that if you haven't looked into it yet, you might want to do. And if you have, it's something that is on my radar to discuss once I kind of have a little bit more of a handle on some things that I'm still trying to figure out precisely well what some of this information means. But here she is denying that President Biden is trailing in these polls in swing States. How was the campaign going before? Oh, my gosh, it's going great. I have been traveling every day
that I'm not in the classroom. People are excited, and I really feel like, you know, people know the choice, the selection. They can choose chaos or they can choose you know, steady wisdom, experience. So it's not that's a little worried. No, No, I've killed her a lift. I feel that Joe will be reelected well when these poles like the Wall Street Journal one land in the White House and he's losing all the battleground states. No, he's not losing in all the battle He's coming up and
he's even or doing better. So you know what, once people start to focus in and they see their two choices, it's obvious that Joe will win this seleuch all right anyway. But that's that's what she's saying. She denies that he's down in these poles. You can say the polls are incorrect.
You can say that she didn't say this. She said he's not down in these polls, and he is. She's We're are the fact checkers here, the BacT checker should say, doctor Jill Biden, where are the people that counted the number of lies that Trump allegedly told while he served in the White House, because we need to hear from them. We need to hear that. This goes on to the list of lies that have been told to us by the Biden family the Biden White House. Anyway, I don't so much
care about that. I'm just illustrating the stupidity of some of this stuff and the duplicity and the double standard here, the duplicity of the media, the double standard and so forth. But does she know something we don't know or is she just trying to redirect the narrative, you know, given what we do know about the twenty twenty election, some of the things that were brought to light, I guess due to the documentary two Thousand Mules as an example.
There's a lot of things that are problematic out there. But one of the things, and this is what I just want to mention to you here at the end of the program. And I don't know if you've some of you may have looked into this and are familiar, some of you may not, But there is a website that shows raw data on the number of people in each state in the country every week who are trying to register to vote. And there's columns that show that these are people who are trying to register
without a driver's license. Sometimes it'll show like the number of people who match their name in the last four of a social Security number. Then there's a column that shows the number of people who tried to register who are dead. That's a column on there. And if you look at the number of voters that are trying to register in swing states. I know in Texas there's been weeks, think about this, weeks where over two hundred thousand people have tried
to register to vote. And so this website is really just a collection of days that's being reported. But it's I mean, some of it's dumbfounding in the states that are swing states, States well Swing states, and a couple of others. But you'll see a lot in Georgia. Now, some of
that might make sense. Maybe it's just people trying to register. I don't know, but there's definitely should be concerned, especially especially when you factor in that these people are trying to register sometimes you know, without a license, and then the amount of people, the percentage of people who are not matching completely, some of these people even being dead, which of course should send out all sorts of alarm bells. But the left act like there's no problem
here whatsoever. But that's something I want to talk about as I learn more about it. I just want to put that out there, but I've got to go. Thanks for listening. STG