Posted on 12/13/2023 5:29:58 PM PST by caww
Yum, Brisket.
But I quit buying Brisket several years ago when my favorite BBQ place started charging $ 20.00 a pound for it. It was good, but not THAT good.
That’s currently the price. Heck it’s even $6-12 raw at the grocery store. I’m used to paying $1.99 - $3.99 raw.
Thanks to the economy...
Well, This was in a resort town with little competition and mostly wealthy customers. I bet it costs double that now.
I think what most are pointing out is that everytime the GOVERNMENT steps in to (so called) help you they just F#CK you over worse than you were before.
The government shouldn’t be the one determining what any job is worth, that should be left up to a FREE ECONOMY.
All this does is price EVERY HIGH SCHOOL KID OUT OF A JOB!
Why would any employer higher a KID to do a braindead job when he/she can higher a braindead (so called) adult to do it for the same wage.
It’s all a jobs program for ILLEGAL ALIENS!
And of course pay them just 25% of minimum wage UNDER THE TABLE!
You might add that you yourself will have more work rather than dump it all on the one remaining employee.
$15.00/hr was a barely decent salary in 1990.
Wow, someone gets it.
That’s an area I’m not familiar with.
Robots such as industrial assembly line robots and even atm’s and self checkout lines need to pay social security. If it replaces a worker with a machine the owner of the machine needs to be required to withhold payroll taxes for that machine equal to what the human workers would have paid. This will help fund social security and medicare as well as remove some incentives to automation replacing human workers
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