Posted on 02/10/2020 2:57:50 PM PST by Libloather
Common sense. Labor is just not much of a cost driver most of the time.
The left is literately eating our lunch with this issue. For a tiny push up in inflation the GOP could make huge inroads where it counts.
C’mon man...why not make it $100 and put all of the entry level workers out of work....then you can give them all food stamps, ebt cards, and a REI tent and camp stool for street living...
Of.course a Big Mac will be 30 dollars.....
Which, in a real world political macro sense, means you have zero common sense.
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Anyone remember the SNL sketch with Phil Hartman as a candidate promising everyone millions of dollars? Not as much of a stretch now. Phil was hilarious.
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The age old management vs worker conflict. Well there are about 5 million small, mid and large cap businesses with more than one employee. So it is 5 million vs 330 million. Who wins that?
Well Tommy we’ll pay it out of your fortune until that’s gone then revert back to $7/hour.
The first two items are ok, but the third one? The stuff of nightmares.
Guessing he won’t raise my retirement to match it.
Oh, it’s you again. I won’t waste any more time on it. Some people can’t accept reality.
You post a ridiculous exception to the rule and yo want us to take it seriously?
Come on up to Minnesota. I’ll give you a shovel and a wheelbarrow and you can put your skills to work.
Labor is THE cost driver in the restaurant business.
Accusing me of not having common sense is bereft of civility. You don't know me!!
I stand by an earlier post where I refuse to lie in order to pander to the ignorance of people like you! You deserved that based on the fact that you would not concede that my economics viewpoint was correct.
Your political observation that the fastest way to Republican victory may be some concession to an increased minimum wage may be correct. I just refuse to participate in a LIE. Political expediency should not be tolerated. That is why you are wrong.
I think he made it through finance/banking.
If you think he’s a loon, you should take a look at his wife and her causes.
The poor people simply do not understand why it is harmful to raise the minimum wage. Take any product. It goes through several stages to end up at a consumers door. Take a simple carrot. It is picked, cleaned packages, shipped and put out for sale. If each step cost 20% more the end user is paying 8o% more for the carrot.
Does he own any Business’s that pay a minimum $22 an hour now?
Welcome to McDonalds.Thats one cheeseburger, a large fry, and a large coke. That’ll be $47.50.
In 1976 when I was 16 and started to work MW was 2.30 hour. 2019 it is now 9.45 hour. So in 43 years it has only raised 7.15. However food, gas, housing has what tripled, quadrupled?
So yes it needs to be raised to 12.00 at least.
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