Excepting, of course, those proposals that did have a sudden jump to $15. Like, say, San Francisco’s original proposal: “To which City Hall replies, basically: “Oh don’t be such a buzz kill. You should have seen the original proposal. It jumped to $15 an hour almost right away and allowed the Board of Supervisors to…

“Remember all those stories about how restaurants were closing like crazy in Seattle in the wake of the city passing its landmark $15/hour minimum wage increase? Yeah, those were bullshit—no more restaurants were closing than normal, and the ones that did had nothing to do with the wage hike.”