It would appear that few people know as much about business as liberal spokespeople. One of them, Generation Opportunity’s Patrice Reed, recently wrote in the Washington Post that the rules governing food truck owners in Washington, D.C.—one of the few approved occupations in the eyes of app developers, community activists, and nonprofit spokespeople—are close to ideal.  What’s more, she offered up the unique theory that food trucks, which are exempt from many of the costly taxes and regulations befalling the restaurants they compete with, are actually beneficial for the restaurants in this city because they create bring more lunch diners to the city, which ultimately boosts demand for brick and mortar restaurants.

It’s an inane argument but one completely in line with the liberal agitprop—peddled constantly over the last eight years—that laws increasing the cost of doing business are done for the benefit of business. It turns out, according the progressive logic, that higher minimum wages actually allow companies to attract better and more productive workers and health insurance mandates reduce absenteeism and increase tenure, saving businesses more money than these cost. If downtown restaurants knew what was best for them they would demand that the city subsidize their cut-rate competitors even more, but apparently they don’t know what’s good for them. Thankfully, the government’s got them covered.