re: California’s $20 fast food minimum wage balloons menu prices

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I believe a lot of chains operate in volume more so than margin.

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Yeah, so it hits them too because higher prices = fewer sales. The question is how hard?

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quote: You get a better quality worker at a higher wage…

No. Youre still getting the worst possible workers, just at a highly inflated price.

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That’s like being proud of yourself for having more students pass their tests because you lowered the score required to pass or boasting about crime decreasing because you decriminalized shop lifting.

You must really eat a lot of fast food.

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Youre still getting the worst possible workers, just at a highly inflated price.

Same labor pool. All they did was lift the floor

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But the customer is getting the same worker at a cheaper cost.

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Due to low earnings, fast-food workers' families also receive an annual average of $1.04 billion in food stamp benefits and $1.91 billion in Earned Income Tax Credit payments

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So whereas before McDonald's was paying them $16 (66.6%) and the taxpayer was paying them $8 (33.3%), now McDonald's is paying them $20 (83%) and the taxpayer $4 (17%)

Only a socialist would be against that

Thought they were supposed to break off and fall into the ocean. What’s taking so long?

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But the customer is getting the same worker at a cheaper cost.
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Due to low earnings, fast-food workers' families also receive an annual average of $1.04 billion in food stamp benefits and $1.91 billion in Earned Income Tax Credit payments

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You know they will just raise the cut off for food stamps right?

because why the frick would i go to school for 4 years to make the same as a fry cook? Everyone's wages will have to go up.


If you were paying your assistant manager $20/hr, you cant keep them there, they must get a raise.



Do nurses in louisiana even make $20/hr?

Lets say its $20, i know my ex wasnt making that out of college, but lets say on the low end its $20.

To have the same raise as the fry cook, the nurses would need to be bumped to $35/hr.

Raising medical costs.


This isnt just mcdonalds fry cooks getting a raise and mcdonalds becoming more expensive.

While I agree fast food workers shouldn’t make a ton of money, it’s funny we are debating $42k before taxes in CA being excessive

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The problem is not paying the employees a fair wage. These fast food companies can more than handle that without raising the prices of anything.

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Only a socialist would be against that

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Only a socialist would be against the government setting a private company’s wage scale?

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