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Really? Because people I know who work at restaurants make about $20 after tips and I've never seen a $25 cheeseburger even including the tips...
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Really? Because people I know who work at restaurants make about $20 after tips and I've never seen a $25 cheeseburger even including the tips...
Try questioning your ideology and honestly evaluating the economic conditions it has created. Suddenly a $20 minimum wage might make a hell of a lot of sense to you.
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You must be a bot. Show me one economist that thinks a $20/hr minimum wage is a good idea. Hell, I bet even big government, big spender Krugman thinks that one is retarded.
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You must be a bot. Show me one economist that thinks a $20/hr minimum wage is a good idea. Hell, I bet even big government, big spender Krugman thinks that one is retarded.
Right... and the cheeseburger doesn't cost $25 even including the tip...
Nick, you must have hit the proverbial nail on the head, 4/20 indeed.
You mean the economists that lead us down the trickle down path to ruin and who lead the USSR down the communist part to ruin?
I don't give a fuck what they think. Economics is a made up field, not science.
Really? Because people I know who work at restaurants make about $20 after tips and I've never seen a $25 cheeseburger even including the tips...
Try questioning your ideology and honestly evaluating the economic conditions it has created. Suddenly a $20 minimum wage might make a hell of a lot of sense to you.
There also needs to be a maximum income, such as 10 Million, where you cannot make more than 10 Million a year. Lets face it no one needs that much money.
You mean the economists that lead us down the trickle down path to ruin and who lead the USSR down the communist part to ruin?
I don't give a fuck what they think. Economics is a made up field, not science.
Who the fuck are you to dictate what people "need"? Guess what little boy, in the real world we get to have things we don't "need", and there's nothing you can do about it other than cry.
You should start though by giving away every single thing you don't "need", but you need to let a random stranger tell you what those things are.
We have people including CHILDREN who are dying of exposure and starvation in this country while countless greedy people live a life of extreme excess. This is a crime against all of humanity. How can you justify a person who owns a 20,000 square foot mansion, while a few miles a way a child is dying from exposure and starvation. Sickening.
It's sad, but that's not how it works bucko. We don't limit people because of other people's bad luck. It isn't a "crime against humanity", it's called life. When you grow up you'll realize that no matter what you do some people are going to suffer.
I think everyone knows that life is like this. However, the fact that you don't see that things could potentially be better does not show that you are a realist. It just shows that you don't care.It's sad, but that's not how it works bucko. We don't limit people because of other people's bad luck. It isn't a "crime against humanity", it's called life. When you grow up you'll realize that no matter what you do some people are going to suffer.
Increase in wages(whether "minimum" or not) contributes to inflation.I would hope that most people support themselves on more than minimum wage, but would it still not make sense to raise minimum wage in keeping with inflation? Because if you don't, then isn't that effectively just devaluing the employees' jobs?
Right... and the cheeseburger doesn't cost $25 even including the tip... It takes about 5 minutes of labor to make a cheeseburger and 2 minutes to serve it. Like I was saying, apply some damn common sense.
But are wages the only contributing factor to inflation?Increase in wages(whether "minimum" or not) contributes to inflation.
Increase in wages(whether "minimum" or not) contributes to inflation.
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dude seriously, why do you time after time post shit that you have no clue about? do you enjoy looking like a dummy?
We have people including CHILDREN who are dying of exposure and starvation in this country while countless greedy people live a life of extreme excess. This is a crime against all of humanity. How can you justify a person who owns a 20,000 square foot mansion, while a few miles a way a child is dying from exposure and starvation. Sickening.
Increase in wages(whether "minimum" or not) contributes to inflation.
20 buck min wage would = a $25 cheeseburger.
dont you understand that?
Farmworkers who pick for Florida growers who sell tomatoes to Taco Bell earn between 40-50 cents for every 32-lb bucket of tomatoes they pick. For example, the Immokalee-based "Six L's Packing Co., Inc.," one of the nation's largest tomato producers and a contractor to Taco Bell (according to the industry journal "The Packer"), still pays 40 cents per bucket. That is the same piece rate paid since 1978.
At that rate, workers must pick and haul 2 TONS of tomatoes to make $50 in a day. [According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the median annual income of farmworkers today is $7,500.] Workers are denied the right to organize and the right to overtime pay for overtime work. They receive no health insurance, no sick leave, no paid holidays, no vacation, and no pension.
To date, Taco Bell has refused to take any responsibility for these sweatshop conditions in the fields where their tomatoes are picked.
Given the sheer volume of Immokalee tomatoes it buys to supply its worldwide operations, and given its size and economic strength, Taco Bell has the power to help bring about more modern, more equitable labor relations in Immokalee's tomato fields, and... with power comes responsibility.
What can Taco Bell do?
Taco Bell could nearly double the picking piece rate paid to farmworkers by agreeing to pay just one penny more per pound for the tomatoes it buys from Florida growers. We believe that Taco Bell, as part of the "world's largest restaurant system" can easily afford to pay one penny more. But even if they passed the cost on to YOU, the consumer, it would still be less than 1/4 of 1 cent more for your chalupa.
Would you be willing to pay 1/4 of 1 penny more for your Chalupa if it meant that farmworkers could earn a living wage?
We thought you would.