I'm glald you wrote $100,000 because we should be dealing in annual salary not hourly when we respond. $15 an hour sounds so reasonable, but when you instead annualize it to $30,000, it smacks people in the face and makes them wonder, "How would it make any sense for that kid down the street who can't even drive yet to be making 30 grand a year at McDonald's if this passes?"
I don’t support a $15/hour minimum wage right now, but I’d hope it might naturally rise to $15/hour by 2026. I see too many young people (students) earning a very similar wage to what I earned doing the same work 30 years ago (as a student). There is something very wrong with that; prices have changed dramatically over the past 30 years.
I suspect that without open borders our minimum wage would have already risen to $15/hour.
The McDonald's orders will be taken by an electronic kiosk. The cooks will be making at least $15, if they aren't now. The shift manager, who earns more than $15, will be at the counter dealing with any customer problems that the kiosk's computer didn't fix. And the kid will be smoking weed in mom's basement earning $0, not having learned the very basic job skills of showing up for work on time, doing what told and being nice to customers.
After making the investment in the kiosks, the McDonald's franchise owner will make more money.