Give them their $15/hour. Fire half of them and leave the other half to work twice as hard.
I’ll see your $300 and raise you 8 weeks of paid vacation
I always ask something similar and it either shuts the liberal up or it causes them to start sputtering something like: “Well, now...you’re just being ridiculous...we’re trying to help...don’t you care about the poor? blah blah blah”
The minimum wage should be zero.
--that usually draws a blank look and the conversation ends---
Great idea, and I will add :why dont single party states like NY, Maryland, CA do this already?
Once a MW of $200 per HR is seen to work in those places it will catch on.
Dems always want to bypass the ‘set the example’ step and go for the ‘force it on them’ step.
The only fast food franchise to receive my money is Chick-Fil-A. I do not care about the others.
How about $22?
That's the approximate amount according to current news clips of welfare chea... er... I mean... recipients, on the upwards of 162 "low-income" programs and 7 core welfare programs.
The insanity of it all. The market sets wages - or it should. But I guess if they want $15 an hour minimum, they would not mind paying $20 for a Big Mac combo.
Uncle Sugar should make the following offer to Americans...
As a once-per-lifetime offer, the government will hand you a million dollars, tax free. In exchange, you waive all rights to welfare, food stamps, section 8 housing, socialist security, medicare, medicaid, Obamacare, Obamafones, etc, etc, etc.
It’s then up to you to manage that money wisely. If you squander it on bling, that’s your tough luck. You get a job or your starve.
The economic argument alone against the minimum wage (reduced employment, higher prices for consumers, etc.), while valid, won’t prevail against the socialists. We need a bold defense of private property proclaiming that American values don’t countenance throwing everyone’s income into one big pot to be divided-up as the politicians ans see fit. The regulators might have a case if employers like McDonald’s monopolized the demand for labor; but this does not wash — we no longer live in a feudal economy where manor lords control the employment of immobile serfs.
Avoiding Economics in school is no problem. Why do you ask?
It should be noted, however, that those same people always conveniently leave out the fact that .... our 99 cent hamburger or cheeseburger here in the US ...... is priced between $2.00 to $3.00 in the land of Oz. That is an almost 300% increase in the price of the cheapest burger compared to here in evil America.
Based on the inaccuracies in the order that I got today at McDonald’s, it’s clear that some of the employees aren’t even worth minimum wage.
Let’s make it $526.32 and hour! That would make everyone millionares! Who cares if it makes a value meal cost $363.
One-day strike on Aug. 29 to demand an increase in wages.
Wonder if they ever think about betting a better job where they can learn something of use?.
The free ride mobile is out of gas.
“For many financially struggling families, such price increases would mean the weekly trip to McDonald’s would no longer be affordable.”
An un-discussed consequence covers the other side of this: with the price of a family meal out at McDonald’s going from $20 to about double that, many will decide that a nice sit-down dinner isn’t much more and just go there instead. I’d rather spend $35-40 at Bahama Breeze for real food and real service than $30+ at a jacked-up-minimum-wage McD’s for grade-D meat on a nutrition-free bun “served” on a tray.
Those who can’t afford it vs. those who see much better options for a few bucks more. Minimum wage narrows the customer base.
Raise min. wage to $15 and you have to bump everyone above them also. Plus, the employer won’t settle for teens and unskilled workers if they have to pay $15 per hr. so most of the min. wage workers will lose their jobs. Hello $20 burgers. More if you want fries with that.
Two hundred it good - but lots of folks would like to live in a mansion... and not some tacky McMansion. How about a million dollars and hour? Now that’s cooking...