Full confession here: I love Seattle. I travel from my midwestern home to the Emerald City about twice every year mainly to visit my daughter, son-in-law, and little grandson, but I have come to love the casual, funky feel of the Pacific Northwest, liberal warts and all.

Recently Seattle decided to raise the city’s minimum wage to $15 per hour after low wage workers agitated for months. Now, as with most liberal feel-good ideas, the consequences have come back to bite the backers of increased wages.

It seems that many of the workers want fewer work hours. Why? Well, with their higher wages they’re losing their food stamps and rent assistance.

No, I’m not kidding.

On the other side of the nation, New York City is set to raise the minimum wage for its fast food workers to $15 per hour over the next three years.

One fast food CEO has called out the lunacy of this sort of move. Dunkin Donuts CEO Nigel Travers appeared on CNN to demonstrate to the skeptical anchorette that yes, raising the minimum wage to these levels would lead to firings and excessive burdens on employers.

The class warriors on Twitter threw their little hissy fits, demonstrating that they know absolutely nothing about how the free market actually operates.

Nigel Travis you are outrages in your statement you say that while sitting on a throne. #boycottdunkin

— United Common People (@ucommonpeople) July 25, 2015

.@DunkinDonuts CEO Nigel Travis says $15 an hour is too damn high … his pay = $5,000 per hour. pic.twitter.com/i0aGWkcI9s

— Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) July 25, 2015

Right. Because it’s not fair that a 65-year-old CEO with a college degree and decades of experience in high-level business management should be paid a lot more than a teenager squirting jelly into a donut.

Guess which candidates are agitating for raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour? Why, Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, of course.

Bernie Sanders, being the old socialist Power-to-the-People sort he is, has demanded that all employers in America pay their workers $15 per hour, no matter what. But what’s this? How much does Bernie pay his interns?

Why, he pays them only $12 per hour.

Here’s a screenshot from Sanders’ website offering internships:

And Hillary Clinton? While she supports the $15 minimum wage in NYC for fast food workers, her campaign CFO Steve Kornacki couldn’t say what Hillary thought the federal minimum wage should be.

What does Hillary pay her adult, full time, grassroots organizers?

She doesn’t pay them anything.

As one Democratic strategist told the British news source The Guardian, the Clinton campaign would “. . .hire people as interns and treat people as free labor who have already done the job before. It is a really terrible way to treat the most vulnerable people on the campaign staff and makes me question their leadership on everything else.”

So once again, the Democratic mantra is ‘do as we say, not as we do.’ But you know what we should tell Hill and Bernie? How about this suggestion from Donald Trump’s reality TV show, Celebrity Apprentice?

“You’re fired!”