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

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

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Only a socialist would be for the government paying employee wages like we subsidize fast food now.

We compensate fast food employees with taxpayer money

Capitalism would be the business paying their employees wages, and if they could not survive doing so, they would go out of business. Not paying a portion of their employees compensation and relying on the government to pay the rest.

McDonald's has a program called McResources that encourages their employees to sign up for food stamps and other financial aid provided by taxpayers