The Wall Street Journal lays out what’s to come should President Obama and other assorted liberals across the country succeed in their continuing push to raise the wage floor.

Democrats are even proposing to more than triple the wage floor for the nation’s three million or so workers who receive tips as part of their pay. The minimum (not counting their tips, which can often average $10 to $20 an hour) would rise to just over $7 an hour from $2.13 an hour now. This could hammer the job market for waiters, waitresses, bartenders, bus boys and valets. A 2012 study in the Southern Economic Journal concludes that “it is unusual to find any other occupation where cash wages have a stronger negative effect” on hiring than for tipped workers.

These increases would all be phased in through 2015, which is when ObamaCare’s employer mandates finally kick in. This creates a double burden for small businesses with more than 49 employees. If these employers don’t provide health care and instead pay the penalty of $2,000 per full-time employee, the cost of a minimum-wage worker would rise by the equivalent of another $1 an hour. Workers who used to cost $7.25 an hour would cost closer to $11.10 in 2015. If employers start to provide ObamaCare-approved health benefits, the cost of hiring an additional minimum-wage worker would rise further.

Exactly what we don’t need is more destructive economic policies.