At $15 per hour, fast food places will figure out how to get the customer to make their own meals.
fast food jobs are entry level jobs, they were never meant to be jobs to support a family. only managers possibly, but you only need one manager and a couple lower asst managers, hardly anyone there otherwise is earning a family wage, because these jobs, being entry jobs, require little skill, and have high turnover rates.
I hate to throw a net and use a wide brush BUT I truly believe the greater number of people in todays world have absolutely no clue as to what happens when wages are doubled.
Are they told that Corporate just ‘eats’ the difference?
This doesn’t only apply to the ‘young’ either. How many times have you heard people bemoan - I remember when gas was .12 and cigarettes .20 but you bring them ‘back to reality’ when you say ‘Very true, but you must realize that in 1970 10 thou a year was a right good wage.. a laborer etc making 200 a week was putting in very long hours.
Guess unemployment pays about that now.
In a respect you can agree with the FFW, they could make close to the same sitting home and sleeping till noon.
Guess that is why they call it a ‘starter’ job, you need it BEFORE you can apply for unemployment......
3. Reacquaint America's youth with the work ethic
4. Fill open fast food position with unskilled youth who don't need to earn enough to live off of
Oh, I forgot step 1...
1. Go to sleep and begin dreaming of a world that will never again exist.
I have 30,000 a year employees. It costs me 37,500.00 to hire them. They take home less than 26,000.00 of the 30,000.00 because of their own taxes. They then look at me like it’s my fault.
Between what they “take home” and what it “costs me” is damn near 12,000 dollars mostly to the Feds and some to the state of Montana.
Some is WC, 3,000 each. Some is unemployment State and Fed and 7.5% plus is matching the SS and then there’s Medicaid. The government is a Den of Thieves.
Liberals won’t be happy until EVERYTHING is run by the government. They want Uncle Sam to give them hamburgers and everything else they want. They’re simply too stupid to understand that if people don’t work, the government has no money.
Just like with healthcare. They believe the government can and should provide it for free. They don’t understand that even the VA isn’t free. People pay taxes to keep it going.
Many stores here in Maryland have automated checkouts including Home Depot and most grocery stores, but Walmarts here took them out due to theft.
Even when they had them the customers were too dumb to use them . 'Please wait, help is on the way' was the regular blinking sign as each one screwed it up and then those losers would stand and wait till their death for help that was never coming.
Walmarts cant trust their own employees and they bring in some of the worst customers, you cant have automation in a situation where your own employees cannot be trusted and wont keep an eye out for theft.
At $15/hour, a better class of employees [college-educated, etc.] will displace the low-wage employees that work fast food now.
If employers have to pay a higher wage, they are going to use the higher class of worker ...
The current low-wage employees would lose in this game of Chicken ...
Until the middle of the 20th Century, there was plenty of work to be done and not enough goods to keep everyone happy. Then, it made sense to tax work and not tax the production of goods.
In the 21st Century, there is a surplus of stuff and a shortage of work, so it make sense to tax stuff and not tax work. This is my argument for a ZERO income tax rate, with all government income derived from a sales tax on products (but not services).
This has the effect of allowing money to circulate freely in the services economy, without it all being quickly siphoned off to the government.
I’ve noticed over the years that a #1 something at a fast food place costs about 1 hour of min. wage.
Ex: a #1 at Micky’s ~7.50-8.00 w/tax.
So if they raise the min. wage to $15 what do you think a #1 is going to cost.
I doubt “thousands” walked off their jobs. Most of the picketers did not work at those places. Most of those who did, were off duty.