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.