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Right or wrong, this is the situation faced by many low-wage employers in the U. There are, however, examples of fast food and retail companies out there that strive to pay a fair wage. And they show that companies can indeed pay more and do well. Moo Cluck Moo, a small fast food chain based in Canton, Mich. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez makes a good point.

The Congressional Budget Office recently released its report on the effects of an increased minimum wage.

The good news is, about a million people will be lifted out of poverty and The bad news is, half a million low-wage earners could lose their jobs. Basically, a lot of people will see their household incomes rise by a lot, while a smaller number of households will see their incomes fall. This falls in line with what Brian Parker, co-founder of the restaurant Moo Cluck Moo has to say: And during that time they are cleaning and prepping food…We have designed our restaurants to run efficiently and pay people more.

Perhaps if there were more companies like Mr. Eric Justian is a professional writer living near the natural sugar sand beaches and singing sand dunes of Lake Michigan in Muskegon, Michigan. When he's not wrangling his kids or tapping at his computer, he likes to putter in his garden, catch king salmon from the Big Lake, or go pan fishing with his boys. As a successful blogger his main focus has been energy, Great Lakes issues and local food.

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Follow Eric Justian triplepundit. Great reporting on this one! If you think twice youll be the genius in your family. What part of the country do you live in, combo prices are 7. People will still pay it!! They do it now! How much will be when revenues have to increase? You also pay with the tablet as well. Sounds good to me… But in the end, this means FEWER JOBS. Is that what you REALLY want? You can laugh at that all you want, but that is exactly what higher wages will bring — more automation and fewer jobs.

Just think of the Jobs that will create!!!!! Lower it to 50 cents an hour and no one would work, why should they. I could make more money panhandling on the street.

Perhaps that is whey so many choose to be on public entitlements. And your opinion is as good as your spelling. LMAO you talk like Does that make your opinion more valid that Pimps? Good for you in what you pay your porters. Contrary to how many people interpret that, though, the pay scale for most jobs would remain unchanged since the labor rate is set by the market labor supply versus labor skills demanded. Even though you can order and pay yourself. Bull, France has a high minimum wage and kiosks to order.

People only use them when there is a line. McDonalds tries to automate and they go out of business. France is a socialist nation…free market here in the US will determine automation…not opinions about other nations employment practices.

We were in an Applebees the other day, and they are getting that table screen display as well. With the amount of sales at a Bk. Can you tell me how many people actually live at minimum wage? Do you know how many of those people move well past minimum wage within a few years, as their skills and experience increase? Can you cite the number of people still making minimum wage after 10, or 20 years in the workforce? That fact is, an arbitrary increase in the cost of [unskilled] labor WILL decrease the demand for that labor.

That will actually harm more of these entry level workers, due to fewer jobs, than it will help. These numbers mandate a doubling of the estimated costs of the increase. Thus 68 cents becomes 1. Hold on there friend. THE TRUTH IS THIS IS NOT JUST FAST FOOD WORKERS. We as Americans created this mess by falling for convenience over substance. To rebuild the economy and necessary class structures we must stop buying foreign product, we must demand American made. Go back to making our own meals so that farm growth comes back and understand that these jobs are meant to be stepping stones on a life path to more skilled positions.

Whether or not Mcdonald can or will pay higher wages is not the issue everyone who calls themselves an American should be worried about. We must worry about teaching our children values, work ethic and patriotism along with honesty and integrity so their futures are better.

Everyone here should think about the true problem and work to find a true solution. Just look at the United Autoworkers.

You can satisfy yourself that they make nothing but shit by examination of the longevity statistics for the shit they build. So why should I buy a product that is more expensive and under performs for no other reason than it was made in America? As for your service… BFD. I too served, put myself through college and grad school and got advanced degrees in both Physics and Mathematics.

Do you know anything about tractors? If so… please explain why I should buy John Deer instead of Mahindra. Thank you for your service sir. The purpose of selecting Huff Post was to show that even the liberal arm of the media has accepted that those numbers are garbage. I read and quote from any media I can access, provided sources are reliable…. When liberal media admits a liberal argument is false, you not it must be irrefutably false.

If the people that worked would get a simple order right It would be amazing. When you order a plain hamburger why do they ask if I want cheese? I said a plain HAMBURGER. You know meat and a bun. Do you want anything on it?

They are union people. Price goes up, demand goes down. Many locations will simply go out of business. Wage Hike since then and guess what they Will Make it Through the Next one also.

In N Out does it and their burgers are not dollars. Why do you guys constantly defend corporations that pretty much rape their employees? Het Pimple McDonalds Corp makes billions a dollars a year in profits you make it seem like they are barely getting by.

Look at what they pay their executives. I guess youve never been to in-n-out. There is a huge difference in the quality of employees. In-n-out would not hire the folks McDonalds hires. If you think I am lying then you have never been to an in-n-out. I do it all myself on my high school diploma and work ethic — 2 jobs is a must right now. Other people should try it. Period — What people on welfare have today is rich compared to how I lived.

How much money do people in the Philippines make?

But, I did my best to figure out how not to be dirt poor. I looked to myself fo r improvement — not demanded where I work pay me more! These are not corporate stores and do not have the support or the revenues to increases such as that. Many of these are working hour to hour to manage payroll so as to not lose money.

Wake up and smell the coffee. Corporate has nothing ot with the pay at these privately owned franchises. So your point is moot. Secondly it causes disparity between skilled labor and non skilled labor. Why should a burger flipper make the same as a first responder? They have to go to school and get certified?

It has nothing to do with profits, but pay for what the job is worth. So now we will have entry level collage graduate jobs making the same or a little less than a worker in a fast food chain!

Hence the pay disparity! The highest performer in was 9. Franchise of Franchise Foundations, a Professional Corp. Now run off and before you post understand the entire picture! You need a lesson in business. McDonalds corp is not who pays these people. Small business owners with 1 or 2 locations.

Stuff all your B. Nobody is holding a gun to their head there Mr. Fake Ass Malcom X. If they are not making the money they wish then they should find a different job. For decades those fast food jobs were for high school kids during the summer or maybe for the first few years after high school while attending college or not going to college. The raping going on is by the state and federal government playing the race card and trying to force privately owned companies to do their bidding.

These jobs were not meant for long term and be expected to pay for a house, car and burping out multiple kids. Next thing you know they will demand that fast food joints have some sort of profit sharing and a retirement plan.

I am sure you would love that since you sound like some low life so called community activist. Maybe you can run on that platform. The country has always been in better shape when everyone that works shares the wealth. Quit bitching about the nigger in the White House. The elections are over!

So do you advocate for the elderly on Social Security to get a pay raise also? I personally believe that the whole minimum wage argument should pertain to the Seniors also. If the make Different business model pimpdalyrical is correct for the economically challenged who sound off without knowledge.

Cuz people insist on cutsie Happy Meals — and Ronald — and balloons, and little toys in their pretty boxes, and playgrounds. And all the advertising. In N Out does not offer that — so yes, it can afford to pay more. Fewer people would purchase at that rate, and McDonalds would lose business.

McDonalds might also drop their stringent requirements for their supplies which leads to excess waste for nothing but visuals. McDonalds has various research departments as well, they have people spending hours perfecting the image of a burger to release to the public.

Bottom line is, if the prices are too high, people will not purchase…and if they still purchase at that rate, then the market has spoken and its still the correct decision. If people do not purchase, we have more room in the market for smaller outlets that can run a competent and competitive business. Also, do you realize you are arguing to cut wages with that sentimentality?

Every cry baby right wing nut on these forums would have heart failure. Cut their wages, but leave mine alone! Too late, the US has been losing good paying jobs since the days of Ron Raygun! It is as if every one thinks that good paying jobs left in the last few years! You know Daniel, In-N-Out is a lot cheaper and higher quality than McDonalds. You are just echoing what corporations tell you, they are making record profits and can afford a muhc higher wage without increasing costs.

How uninformed you are. A lot of speculation on your part. Fast Food margins are thin, they rely on volume. I find it amazing their offerings are actually cheaper than the lot. You are so wrong my friend. Franchises are small businesses. Business is very honest… unlike the government. You know what your are getting into as an employee or consumer, and have the liberty to choose how you use it….

This all changes when the Government forces its will on the market. It is difficult to see where your liberty is lost but this is in Idea how. Right now you have the choice to work there, or to put them out of business by not spending there. Liberty is difficult to preserve.

It is robbed little by little under the disguise of good intentions. I agree you have to watch for the things that you brought up, but in the end you know to expect it. It is less clear in the case of the Government, where you might be told an agency is there to find terrorists, but is actually spying on all your data.

Are you saying that in this modern era… not the turn of the century. I was throwing papers when I was 8 years old, for the mesilla valley chronicle… and have been gainfully employed ever since. I have a question why is the union so behind the increase in the min wage, you are so blind. I is a payback for immigration. The money belongs to the company, and they are a business, and businesses are supposed to maximize profit.

Anyhow, there are lots of good books on this, and in the long run, when China becomes a flourishing nation, economically, the people there will be much better off. Meanwhile, or wage rates will continue to decline to reflect the true value of what we deliver on a global market, at global wage prices. This says a lot about value.

It is okay to return more and more money to shareholders, but the people that labour to make that happen are viewed differently in value than………. I no longer eat at McDonolds, and neither should you. Maybe we should raise the minimum raise to 50 bucks an hour and be done with it. Of course this will KILL all the fixed income people that DO NOT benefit from this and of course we would have a 10 dollar menu. I will never understand why people think giving something for nothing will fix anything.

Minimum wage goes up prices go up simple as that. Price go up, demand goes down. If you want more than minimum wage, then you need more than a minimum skill set. Their skill set is of minimum value to the economy and society as a whole. Anyone just off the street can do their job with just a couple hours of training and be just as proficient.

Its not like they went to a vocational school for training or went to a four year school to get a BS in burger cooking and fry dropping. Even still for McDonalds as the ease of training somebody to replace them is minimal.

Because that education you got is worth much more today…. Plus, there is a career path that pays much more later on as an absolute worst case scenario. I graduated tech school in September Should a person working in a job that requires only minimal training make as much as, or more than, a person working in a job that requires a degree that took years of education to earn?

Your career leads you to a higher pay as you gain experience, a min wage job is typically dead end. It will also push up your pay as your employer is now competing with min wage jobs to attract talent. You are absolutely correct in asking that, why? Because someone at a min wage job will say the same thing, and forgo college. Meaning less people competing for your job. Certainly not bad for a regular working class guy with a two year degree. Lets say you work at McDonalds. Like LPNs Licensed Practical Nurses, essentially an RN without the education and pharmacy techs?

Most union contracts include a clause that requires an employer matches any increase in minimum wage for their employees. Which is also why unions are often the most vocal proponents of raising the minimum wage, even though I have never met a union employee who made minimum wage. So why are you whining?? People educated in the field disagree, you are going to have a hard time convincing people when majority of experts claim otherwise.

After years you can expect some minor raises, unlike the lala land you seem to live inthe real world market place needs time to adjust. And it will, AS IT HAS BEFORE. Every single argument you make was made when the min wage was raised to 7. You seem to have a serious problem dealing with time frames. Please answer that before you ignorantly post more dribble. How do you rationalize that in your mind? That is not a drastic change. That is a moderate and relatively easy change to account for.

That is MORE THAN DOUBLE the current minimum wage rate. Do you seriously though that DOUBLING the minimum wage and as such drastically increasing the number of minimum wage workers would not generate any negative impacts on employment and the economy? Most companies are paying more than that already, so they are in effect seeing a small increase. The ones effected the most are the ones not keeping up with the market and are going out of there way to fight the market trend, which means they should be going out of business or losing market ground to competitors.

Work on that reading comprehension as I just acknowledged some companies would have issues and the market adjustment to inflation is long overdue. The long term positive impact and even short term impact stated by EXPERTS is much greater than the short term negative impact on the economy. With your lack of reading comprehension and lack of reading my posts to actually find out you failed to answer a question of my own makes me wonder if you really are educated.

That was not an answer to my question. That was you dancing around the question. Clearly you have never taken any kind of economics classes, whereas I have taken both macro- and micro-economics in college as a part of earning my degree.

I have to ask, because what I stated is describing what will happen to those negatively impacted by the wage increase and informing you its market normalization. So, that argument is not working. There is no need to be nasty either. This is a conversation, not a fight. Actually, that just helps my argument….

There is a need to be insulting when the insult is warranted, this is someone fresh out of college apparently, with poor education in basic economics. An argument is between two people who actually understand the subject at hand, a fight is when someone in dire need of an education decides to open their mouth.

The share of co. Sam — It causes disparity between skilled labor and non skilled labor. How would that be any different than it is right now? Once cost-of-living caught up in about yearsthey would be right back on government assistance. Look at someone like Tom Brady. Fundamentally, he throws a ball. Occasionally, he also runs a few yards with that ball. He gets paid millions of dollars to do that.

Could you go into any McDonalds in the world and perform as well as, or better than, whoever is working in the kitchen? First of all, Ron, they are grossly overpaid, but people are willing to go to a game and watch him very skillfully throw that ball.

So, that is a bad analogy. Test technician for a company that builds nuclear power plants. This job requires a minimum of a two-year degree AND experience working in the field to get into the position I am in. My degree combined with my time in the US Navy is what got me this job. You are just too naive.

Bieber — That is funny. If you want to EARN a higher wage, then educate yourself or learn a valuable trade or skill that is in demand. You do understand that the average fast food worker is 28 years old?

Not high school and college kids. You are either incredibly naive to the reality of the job market, especially in rural America, or you live on a fixed income and can ignore that reality. All the jobs that were lost after were replaced either by machines or part-time minimum wage jobs, while in the meantime colleges jacked up their prices knowing that the gig and money train will soon be up after Americans realize that the jobs they were going to college for no longer exist.

Leaving you stuck with debt that you cannot get rid of with even bankruptcy. If you actually APPLY yourself and get a REAL degree science, engineering, math, etc. You have to WORK for them. Time to grow up kiddies. I am on the road all day. I often am inside where I can log on.

I watch the folks they hire — I think in many cases I see they are qualified for just what they are doing — Had they, say, learned English or tried at all in high school, NOT covered themselves in TATS, etc they might be able to get a better job.

Obviously this doe NOT apply to all, but to all too many. My daughter and her husband both graduated college in the past 3 years — with my daughter also attaining her MBA. They worked through college and have no college debt. I did the same thing when I was in college, leaving with no college debt. If all of us can do it, so can others. You can get a 2 year technical certificate in mechanical or electrical maintenance, pipefitting, welding, robotics programming, CNC machining and make WAY above minimum wage.

Enough of the whining and crying about how pitiful it is to be somebody trying to get a job these days. Get your lazy butt off the couch and educate yourself or learn a skill that is IN DEMAND! The average age of a fast food worker is higher ever since the economy took a dive! So one at that age should be able to increase their skills, fast food is not a career!

It causes disparity between skilled labor and non skilled labor. Hey Bieber, tell the whiners that they made a mistake by quitting school or sitting on their asses collecting free money from the government!! If you want to blame someone for what you consider low wages blame Obama! Because of his ridiculous programs to help these losers the price for everything went up and they along with everyone else have to pay for it! Good point, however the food is also just terrible. Running labor costs requires a lot of effort to keep the balance right.

As noted, the one business says he has less people but expects more work of them and more than one task — in other words, they have to multitask and the workforce as a result is smaller. I cannot find much information about Moo Cluck Moo, but it turns out that In-and-Out Burger does not franchise its operations.

Every store is a company-run store. Which means the profits of EVERY store are used to pay EVERY employee including the managers. McDonalds, Burger King and Long John Silvers are predominantly franchise-operations. It is far easier to pay a higher wage to people when labor costs are spread out across many stores and there is no annual franchise fee.

No one will be willing to deal with the negative publicity and tight margins that goes with running a McDonalds. And what will that do to unemployment if these franchise operations tank in light of increased minimum wage leading to higher prices and fewer customers? The end user wants a good tasting meal fast with a low cost. There will be no negative publicity. TonsofFrank — you sleeping under a rock, the franchise business is on the rise at an expected 2.

Gordon — exactly — and the individual franchise stores on average after all costs are paid including labor net an income less than 60K for the owner! And the initial costs to acquire a franchise operation can be in the millions of dollars. Which most likely means the owner took out a mortgage or mortgages and business loans to open that franchise. It works out better if you take that into consideration.

Your success is dependent on others success. If they want a share of the profits, they need to kick in some up front cash for start up cost. Has any critic honestly sat down and crunched the numbers? Mcdonalds is NOT a career job, most of its employees is for part-time workers usually in high school or working as a side job.

If In-N-Out Can Pay (a Lot) More Than Minimum Wage, Why Can't McDonald's?

If people want better pay, the logical thing to do forex control india find a career paying job or start their own business. Corporations believed in sharing profits. This began with Ronnie Ray-Gun. Here is a thought, if a government can tell a company how to run its business and how much foreign exchange rates previous dates they are allowed to make then this is no longer a capitalist country, but a socialist country, and we know how those forms of government have turned out?

Look at the Soviet Union that paid everyone an equal amount so they all lived in shared misery. And what do we best way to make money on gta online solo now?

The top tier are super wealthy and the others are left to dry. Dont see how a socialist society is worse than what capitalism makes it out to be. How macroeconomic determinants of malaysian stock market the game of monopoly end?

How great is that? Because Any person has a chance to win…. Hope, Freedom, you know…. Used to have a chance. Liberals do not believe that people can, will, and should fail, or succeed. It ruins the notion of an egalitarian utopia. Because ANYONE can start their own business and elevate themselves. I did it one way, my son, who, at the age of 21 is making two or three times what I make, has done very well for himself.

But, unlike most of his generation, he knows the value of work and puts in about hours a week himself. He has fully funded his k for the past 4 years and, by the time he is 30, could easily retire.

WORKING A SHIFT AT MCDONALD'S

The answer lies somewhere between capitalism and socialism. Companies maximizing profit at the expensive of their customers and employees. What a stupid article…. Its a pretty big difference. But if housing costs 7 times more, the only way it would work out beneficially in California is if they paid 7 times your salary for the same position. California has an exorbitant cost of living, exorbitant housing, job stagnation in the areas that recently raised minimum wage and some of the highest taxes and fees in the nation.

You media dimwits have no clue when it come to the economics of business, big or small. Fast food is not a career but a teenage starter job. I have been screamed at, thrown things at, threatened, etc.

We have to work super hard in order to get things right and out the door to satisfy the customer! That is what I call stressful! Try meeting payroll when sales are declining. April, the problem is that many of the people working in the fast food and retail industry minimize the responsibilities of those who are skilled and making higher wages in comparison to their own duties.

Wages are based on supply and demand. If mastering option trading volatility strategies company offers minimum wage and there are plenty of acceptable applicants, then there is not much of a reason to offer more.

Those who feel trapped in retail, need to improve their marketable skills. Then they will command a stocks or mutual funds for roth ira wage.

A stressful job is one where what you do actually matters and you are under real pressure to perform to a high level. I have never noticed this in any of the minimum wage jobs that I worked as a younger person. Iran then decides to play with you by activating their radar at their sam sites, which line the coast.

And the only way to get power to the missle defense systems is to repair the v transformer live in degree temps dripping with sweat. I guess this needs to be spelled out for you. Do you think everyone is the next Einstein? Do you think everyone has a high IQ? As the way a CEO keeps there job is to make share holders happy.

What were to happen to a CEO who raises wages but lowers the stock price? Also granted the minimum wage employees may not make that much but there are opportunities to advance. Take care of American workers first! We are the backbone of this country. Hey Angry Americanwhen will misinformed people like you EVER LEARN? Corporations big or small are employing millions and are out to make a profit!

Investors are their backbone and they want to see BIG profits! Quite whining about pay. Your complaints should be about lack of job growth. Fast food joints are not going to pay anything.

That is how you beat the corporate demons. In other words, put YOUR money where your mouth is. Well when you are willing to crack open you bank account and put every thing you own at risk to open a business then you can have a say when it comes to payroll. Until then just be glad some one else took that risk so you can have a job. I am amazed that the government and all these people think it is thier most traded etf options to tell a stock market quotes globe and mail business what they should pay thier employees.

Same old whining and moaning but not doing anything about it. In N Out has much less locations. In N Out is confined to areas of higher cost of living, thus higher wages.

In N Out has more franchise locations than McDees. Yes, I have an idiotic question. You said In N Out has much less many fewer locations and also that the they have more franchise locations.

How can they have both fewer locations and more locations simultaneously? Hate to tell you but a job is only worth what someone is willing to take to do it. Be happy you have a job. Perez also guarantees fast action for illegals who complain about work conditions and pay.

Two pop immediately to mind. Could it be because their prices are higher? Could it be that they are only in areas of the country that can support that kind of pay? To answer your first question: In N Out burgers are the best. They use real meat, never frozen. Tata global share market price they sell is fresh, never frozen, including the french fries. They peel and slice their own fries in-store.

And, the hamburgers are cooked to order. I too wish they had a store where I now live. And I would gladly pay more for their burgers. When I get a burger I usually go to 5 Guys or Smash burger because I prefer one made fresh. I also take it from your post that there burgers are much more expensive so this really proves my point. In-n-Out may taste better and be fresher but they make small burgers.

Why are we mandating fast food chains increase wages? As you see in this article, the companies that pay more, get more effort from their workers and require fewer employees. It is a simple tradeoff…. This is economics On the other hand, I suppose you will be happy if you are one of those workers that works hard to get ahead and will keep your job…. Once McDonalds arrived on the scene in my small tourist supported town, most of the small mom and pop burger joints, that paid well above fed min, to their neighbors children employees, went out of business.

The wage increase fiasco will all be resolved soon…. I can pouch the buttons on the screen to order what I want and slide a card. I know my drinks are already filled by an automated machine and I just heard they have a new machine that actually grinds the meat and produces a burger with little human help at all.

Then the companies will not have any benefits to pay or unemployment taxes to pay. I say we start today. Please note the dates on the comments here. This article has been circulating for months. Yahoo runs out of things to post and digs up an oldie. It is a different business model. McDonalds used to have a what does spread mean in currency trading menu pretty much the same as In N Out does now.

The extended how to earn money on internet in bangladesh requires more labor and McDonalds hires more illegals so they can keep the wages down.

I doubt In-n-Out has that many. Here is a thought. Start a business or buy a franchise and pay it. I mean obviously you can just start a business with nothing more than the desire to do so and obviously you can make plenty of money while paying those wages so just do it.

Maybe if McDonalds could not find anyone willing to work for less, they would pay more. This is FREE enterprise. When the government steps in and demands what you pay, that is not a free country!

The two how to get unlimited money on wwe smackdown vs raw 2016 are going after totally different markets is why they offer different products.

That is why we need to raise the minimum wage so all boats raise to the same level. Corporate profits go up, prices go up, wages stay the same. Republicans blocking the minimum wage is hurting this economy. People have no money to spend. In N Out are all corporate owned and it is closely held. The latter are franchisees with publicly traded stock. The richest man in the world is from mexico. Why not get rid of all minimum wages, welfare and food stamps and let the market dictate wages.

Then we can have 4 year old girls selling chicklets gum, and people living in cardboard houses just like mexico. Same reason My Company Only pays me McDonalds is in the business of cheating people and selling pink slime and making every effort possible to lower the quality of the food items until they can NOT possibly go any lower. Get busy on that pile of manure and if you plan to keep working here much longer, then you better figure a way of making it look and taste like a real hanburger!

Because they have a different and wiser employer, Maybe you should all go over thr and ask for a job. And us taxpayers are probably paying the difference for them, Another government trick.

Help them to force others.

Unless you are in a management program, fast food jobs are a dead end. They are non skilled jobs. If one company want to paid more for their non skilled labor then that is up to them. If you want to make more money stop working at dead end jobs. Find a better jobs. You just have to make the effort to find them, they are not going to find you. The rail roads are looking for help. So, the author is arguing that MooCucKMoo and In NOut Burger are the business models that McDonalds should follow.?

Thriving citizens become more productive employees, more willing consumers, and stronger supporters of pro-business policies, struggling citizens are disgruntled at work, frugal at the cash register, and anti-business at the ballot box.

You can lead as a dictator and oppress those that help you or you can lead as a true leader and show your respect for those of whom you supposedly lead. Its a personality trait. If they could they would own you as slaves if it would lead to more wealth for themselves. These personality traits did not just go awway. They have been a part of society since the beginning of time and they will always part of society. Its a matter of power and control. Today we are part of a society that enjoys the effects of many using calculus to predict stock market in a democratic nation that resulted in more human rights.

Unfortunately each day that goes on our negativity towards each other erases those years of battles that previous generations have fought. The scary part is even the poverish are seeking to give their oppressors more and more control.

They can afford to be good to their people. Did anyone notice that Mr Parker how to do call divert in samsung s duos instead of having a dozen people standing around we have 3 or 4 cleaning, doing things?

That means 8 people making the wages they get for standing around at McDonalds are not working! In the case of In-n-Out, they are family owned and have no shareholders. It would be interesting to see how many fast food chains stock is owned by union pension funds. Wow how can I put this?

The very thought that the GOV should trample the rights of any individuals mba forex management corporations because they feel someone should pay better still amazes me.

Why not make it so that no how to start stock trading in the philippines makes more than a million a year in profits. We all know how those countries end up. Yet all we have to do is look at the rich social liberal. So why not force theses rich liberal to hand over their cash.

They have way too much according to the liberal definition of rich demons. Actually, it probably can and its CEO has stated that it wants too and make money interest rate arbitrage only reason it would do so is to push out the remaining competition.

Who wants only McDonalds around? We need population control. Too many degenerates having children that have no chance to succeed. No economy can support a society where a large and growing portion of the population produces nothing. I thought I told them to cut off your internet access. And you better not have gotten out, I told them to keep an eye on you Dad.

Please take your medications too ok? Have you had the food forex trading investment plans In-N-Out or experienced the service? Additionally, In-N-Out is privately i. Everyone needs to remember the purpose of a company is to maximize profit for its shareholders. The shareholders are very different in these cases. Did the guy say that he has 4or 5 employees working versus 10 or 12 standing around?

Working employees always earn more as they show the willingness to work. See 6 to 7 employees lost their job. IN N Out requires more from their employees. You HAVE to have half a year minimum of experience to start, and have to be much more responsible and professional. They pay for a better caliber worker. Anyone that has eaten at an In N Out can attest to this. In-N-Out pays more so they can attract and retain better employees that is how the free market works.

In-N-Out pays better go get a job there. Or Costco is another good example. Most everyone I know started at a minimum wage job and worked their way to better jobs.

If you raise the price of the minimum level all you will do is raise the cost of everything else so that the end result is unchanged. People have no money to spend because we are being taxed to death and there is no real job growth.

Minimum wage will always be the cutoffthe poverty wage. Companies that are not franchised have a totally different business model.

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WIth a franchise, there are many more owners risking their own money and who want to have a good ROI. What items do they actually have at these prices? If they are going to be paying better wages they want the better employees.

So what this does is turn up the unemployment line. Everybody knows In and Out has better more professional employees. Got to have some jobs for the people that graduate from the school of paperboy or lawnmower up to fast food stock exchange brokers usa. Corporations exist for one purpose: Make a profit for their stock holders.

They DO NOT exist to ensure you have a living wage. That is YOUR responsibility. How do you ensure that? By getting an education and training in a profession that earns more money. I was watching a cooking though over the weekend. A burger flipper should NEVER make as much or more than a person with a degree working in their field. These ignorant ghetto bafoons only want more more more without ever actually doing anything for it. They feel for some reason entitled.

Idiot greedy no skilled labor doesnt even understand economics either. For example they forget the franchises are barely making it and cannot afford to raise their pay…. People, minimum wage jobs arent there for a career. Flipping burgers should never be what you want to do when you grow up…. Any company can afford it. They arent corp MCDonlads or Burger King. They are franchised and arent in the big bucks. In-n-out is corporate and therefore they CAN afford to pay more. There is a catch: The folks at IN-N-Out are expected to be clean, can speak well, and work work work.

That alone ruins it for all applicants coming from McDonalds. Great point about In and Out. McDonalds HAS to pay minimum wage. They are all franchised and dont make the money of big corporate. Besides……wanting more money just for the sake of surviving is NOT a good reason to pay more money.

Get a different job if you want make money with stolen credit card. You made a choice to work minimum wage at a shitty job, not the rest of us…. McDonalds ONLY hires those folks.

Keep parroting that free market is Earn money selling grit bullshit while ignoring reality. You do understand that unless people actually spend money, our economy shrinks, right? Otherwise, I look forward to hurting option trading club singapore and taking enough of your property to make up for the shortfall in my check.

You realize there is no god right? Also you havent a clue about economics. The real solution is to motivate these non skilled people to become ambitious, contribute for a change and better themselves. You dont have a clue. No you have bought into the lie the unionizers have sold you. They want your money and allegiance, nothing more. However, employees must realize that staff cuts will be necessary in order to sustain this model, so not everyone gets to enjoy this increase.

As long as they are willing to toss their name in the hat, and hope for the best e. Those who work hard—at any job—perform a service that we all obviously value witness the number of customers! Their employers simply do not want to pay for what they receive. They want more productivity and reliability in their workforce. They can hold on to older employees who need their job or two, in most cases without doing anything to reward their hard work.

Furthermore, we also have the issue of an aging workforce in various fields, where older workers—for whom retirement is financially tenuous or for whom the prospect of not working is simply undesirable—fill jobs that ideally a younger work force getting out of college would fill.

So in the end what we have is an overworked workforce, throughout the workforce spectrum. All of these factors—technology, outsourcing, aging, education, etc. The fact that there is a large pool of unskilled labor is the real issue here. Asking private individuals to subsidize people with no skills wage price floors which equal welfare is a poor solution for everyone and honestly is unAmerican. Our constitution and form of government was never intended to promote ONLY that freedom which allows one citizen to exploit others.

Quite to the contrary, our government market capitalization of nse listed companies ALWAYS concerned with protecting the interests of all citizens, that is, promoting the general welfare.

If you have a different opinion about how our economics should work, good for you. As to your issue with having too many unskilled workers, I tend to agree. As a citizen of Louisiana, I like to use as an analogy the tragic case of Hurricane Katrina. But what if they did have the same means as others? What if there had beenMORE cars trying to escape New Orleans on that weekend?

Should these folks simply starve? Why work at all, then? Again, these issues demand sober thought and solutions which may not satisfy ONLY those on the management side of the equation. Ask the students graduating from college right now! Should a person performing a job that only required two hours of on-the-job-training make more than, less than or the same as a person who just completed an Associates Degree that took two years to earn?

See how simple it is. The quality difference between employees at In and Out compared to most other fast food places is like night and day. Granted, offer more starting out and places like McDonalds will get higher quality people. Those losers would be right back on the streets rioting. No franchise overhead you idiots, In-N-Out are family privately owned, so sure they can afford it….

I was waiting in line at In and Out and watched the gentlemen wrapping the burgers take Ice out of his cup and put the ice in his mouth fingers and all and proceed to wrap the burgers.

I was 1 car back. These places are not about the customer. They are about money. Make your own food before you leave the house. That must be a pretty big take out window then. Like a huge picture how much does a cashier at mcdonald make an hour in a living room I guess.

All you have to do famous indian stock brokers look at the difference in quality of employees between the two. In-n-out employes smart articulate people whereas McDonalds typically employs the bottom of the ghetto.

There is a huge difference in quality and service…. In N Out workers hustle their tails off. In return for a higher wage, In N Out expects a higher effort. In N Out is also entirely company owned no franchise costs and is located in the higher income areas of the small region of the US where they operate.

A McDonalds employee very recently put up a sign at work: Sorry out of Frise. Or maybe it will pay for Language lessons…. McDonalds is a franchise operation. The individual franchise owners pay their employees, and they pay McDonalds for the rights to the intellectual properties of the company. So whatever a store makes in a year is the entire operating budget for that store — 4 hour binary options autotrader costs, supply costs, utilities costs, franchise costs and taxes.

Thus we have FIVE HUNDRED MILLIOIN person-hours worked…. I am SURE each worker will thank you for stripping the CEO and giving them…. THAT action results in….

You all need to get over the rich CEO thing. The market is paying him what he is worth, and you what you are worth…. The employees hold themselves to a higher standard. Try comparing apples to nyheter om forex. Liberals do it all the time—along with Wal-Mart and other successful businesses. Those free-market corporations are passing the costs on to the taxpayer.

In-N-Out is a privately held company that runs all its own stores. McDonalds is a publicly traded corporation that operates a franchise system. The local In-N-Out always has a line. They require a third the staff, but the staff do three times the work. If they increase the minimum wage people will lose their jobs. And during that time they are cleaning and prepping food. So, people will lose their jobs. In that case you better be a better worker than your fellow employees so that you have a chance to keep your job at a higher wage.

Problem is it causes disparity between skilled labor and non skilled labor. Here it is right off the hiring site: Fire Services FS Escambia County, Pensacola, Florida, Florida Firefighters in Florida have to be an EMT, if they get their paramedic certification their base goes up.

Some countys and cities pay more, but this is a good example of the disparity I mentioned. Fortunately for Americans, we are not gonna turn into a Chinese workforce because we poses one thing China does not democratic system of law. Workers can be pushed only so far until they revolt and demand more from their employers and lawmakers.

Executive pay and shareholder profits are 2 of the most wasteful costs of a company. And what value do they bring? Do they provide service to a customer? Were it not for this wasteful profit layer in their business model these companies would be able to pay their workers great wages. And I say this with experience being a business owner myself. I pay very good wages and have some profit. I just offer great service and run a good business.

MCD needs to figure this out. Why does the government have to get involved. Whos kids are making Billions every year on PROFITS!!!! If the minimum wage increases, there will be fewer jobs because stores will use only the minimum number of employees they must.

Make up your minds, liberals — more pay, or more jobs? You want a good paying job? Go to a trade school and learn to weld or wire houses. If America is to remain free: A fair wage is determined wells fargo brokerage transaction fees an employer and an employee.

The price of an item is determined by the free, competitive market. Free people take care of themselves and determine for themselves what is fair or unfair and the free market responds fairly.

Otherwise, you are acting from a victim mentality and inviting those who want to keep you there. That is the domain of free people. The Constitution of the United States grants Congress the power to regulate commerce. The reason for this is that employees and employers are rarely if ever on even forex trading resources when negotiating salaries. And history has proven time and again that when left unregulated that business will exploit workers in every way possible, including paying too little.

So therefore we vote for and elect representatives who pass laws establishing a Federal Minimum Wage. And without no one can be free. This issue is far more complicated than this article contemplated.

Its easy to point to an easy issue that everyone can, on the surface, agree with such as higher wages for everyone. The trick is to set the business model across a wide variety of quality employee pool choices and make the model work. The comparison is not intellectually fair for reasons that needs to be discussed in a way that may not be pleasant for many to hear.

It is an interesting study of just how much they value the quality of their employees,,and they do,,very much. It determines their expansion horizon. Its a reality that will take courage for people to discuss. Think of fast food as a stepping stone, i worked at fast food for minimum wage when it was below 5. If you want real money get a education and move up to something better. Americans have been doing it for years and not bitching about it. That was then, this is now. If you want to get people off social services, pay them more.

If you want to get people off of social services, then do something about runaway real estate and the rent. There is no catch-up for most of us who want our own home.

It is because In-n-Out does far more business but has very few locations compared to McDs. They are completely replaceable. They are in business to make money. Where we have a Constitution which gives Congress the power to regulate commerce. And one of these legal regulations is the Federal Minimum Wage. Actually the writer of the article should try comparing the actual prices of what you get at Moo Cluck Moo compared to McDonalds.

If all the prices were to be raised at McDonalds and Burger King to that level then so would all the prices of every product that relies on minimum wage. In the end, we would all be talking about raising minimum wage again because it still failed to accomplish its goal. This article does not explain how the businesses are set up and how it effects the cost of business. In and Out owns all their restaurants and McDonalds uses a franchise system for example.

But the author makes it sound like they are identical and therefore should operate the same. Because In-n-Out does 5 to 10 times the business of a typical McD.

Anybody who bothers to do their homework might notice the line of cars that extends out from the drive-thru lanes into traffic and down the block at a typical In-n-Out location around lunch time and through the evening.

Shame on Labor Secretary Thomas Perez for making such a stupid statement. He needs to stop focusing on Labor and start looking at the whole picture. Good labor demands good sense. Higher-grade fast food gets a higher price for better quality. Obviously the labor secretary has never run a business, which is sad, The business model at In and Out is much different the menu is limited where Mcdonalds and burger king has many many items, having all those items are labor intense and require more workers.

Also, the quality of worker at in and out is much better than Mcdonalds ,everyone speaks perfect english and they always get the order right. Unfortunately, most of the workers at Mcdonalds would never make it at In and out and if Mcdonalds had to raise their wages most of those workers would get replaced.

Minimum wage jobs are a starting point not a career position. Nobody is forced to work at McDonalds. The bottom line is: In-n-Out does 10 times the business, but with fewer locations.

I mean, YOU ARE LYING. The only one LYING is you Bart. I just checked the prices and slearwig is telling the truth. Although it does appear the cheeseburger prices seems to vary from place to place, all the other prices are exactly correct. In-n-Out has no pricing on their online menu.

The only online pricing is from consumer food sites. They are within 3 miles of my apartment. I am most assuredly a Constitutionalist, not a progressive or even one of yours.

I suspect we may not agree on the details of what that means. But the truth is the truth. No he is not, and neither are you. Where did you check these prices? Go to one and check for YOURSELF…I had lunch there today and yes, the burgers are good, the staff pleasant, and the manager very willing to tell me why she can pay higher wages…. Essentially you are making a case against the franchise model. The company itself could be profitable and pay a living wage were it not for the franchise fees.

If this is the cause of the problem then it should be done away with. Did this individual even go to the 2 places he talked about? Workers get paid what they are worth. The food is cooked fresh not taken out of a drawer and slapped on a bun. And last of all which of your co-workers would you pick to lose their job so that I can give you their wage.

I know, have McDonalds double their prices, that would work. How about have them be more successful at business. Why should I have to subsidize their low pay just because they have a bad business model. They should pay a wage that does not force their employees onto welfare or close their doors, simple as that.

All the minimum wage actually does is prevent a company from offering a low wage job for those lacking the skills to take a higher paying job. Either way, they will find fewer available opportunities. That service was made possible because high school boys were willing to work for the low wages it paid. Those jobs are gone forever. Should we take those jobs away too? Such jobs were never intended to support a family, but they did serve to teach a work ethic at a young age.

That was a good thing. That way we all have a maximum amount of freedom. That job would be illegal in Michigan today, abridging my freedom to take it and pursue happiness. Thus the existence of the Federal Minimum Wage. Seems reality disagrees with you. Are you so vacant you feel every law on the books should be enforced? The power to regulate commerce is granted to Congress. You may not like it, but that you cannot deny that is one of our governments functions.

Regulate commerce does not mean wages. Pretty poor stretch on your part. That was established by Congress and affirmed by the Supreme Court. Take it up with them, not me. My guess is that as top dog he does not pay himself a ridiculously obcene yearly salary of 22mil plus per year as does Mcdonalds nor does he pay the higher ups in his company similarly obcene yearly salaries.

Makes it easier to share the wealth in a successful company when you eliminate the parasitic swine at the top. Who, after all, merely BUILT the company, achieved financing, got the idea, you know…. You, as a burger flipper, I can replace in a heart beat. And given your last name, I would do so.

Current MCD execs had nothing to do with building the company and making it successful. Look at all their news of same store sales declining. What value exactly are they adding that someone on minimum wage could not? Seems like any idiot, such as yourself could ruin a company. No need to get paid millions for that. Go back to reading Karl and the gang, Ross.

Your understanding of business and what is necessary to actually conceptualize, finance, build, manage, and profit by same is absolutely zero. Tell you what, Ross, you are so farking anti-elitist…. I can read and write, and therefore am every bit as good a surgeon as the gal who spent, oh, 15 years learning how to be one!

All the examples of companies paying well are not publicly traded companies. There are no laws guaranteeing employees be fairly compensated. They only have different items on the menu and they do a very good job with that, therefore, operating cost is significantly less than other fast food chains. Did you ever see how hard these kids at In-N-Out work? They bust their butts the whole time they are working. They all actually speak proper English. So they do actually deserve higher than minimal wage because they actually add value.

Not sure if they deserve more than minimum wage, but they definitely deserve more than The workers at In-N-Out take and make orders correctly. They deserve more money than the minimally-skilled employees at McDonalds. The less educated are now put out of work. I live 10 mins from the out n out college and first in n out BTW. It could care less about its cheep work force.

In fact they want a cheap work force. I did a study about Walmart in Grad School. And I found out this: If the ended there pricing with a 9 instead, i. And if they no one would notice this small price increase!!!! The answer is simple. It is not meant to be. A work force that they can control and miss treat easier. I have noticed, and I will tell you why this is done. WalMart uses this pricing system to indicate which items are on clearance; which are to be phased out; which are on sale; and the like.

Adding a few pennies to the price of each good sold would, well, enhance WallyWorlds revenue by…. I guess every little bit helps. Trade in that diploma for another box top. In N Out has the best burgers at a great price — and no blue hair, tats or piercing! Many working at other fast foods would NOT meet the criteria to work at In N Out. Um… In n out has locations and mcdonalds has 35, Also in n out does not have a dollar menu.

Minimum wage increase is just a scam by the democrats to increase the revenue to the government. Because that restaurant is a class act with employees that are on their way up and are actually trained. Many of their places are strictly drive thru or walk up Windows on a very small piece of porperty! They usually operate around 14 hours a day.

Smaller chains can afford higher wages because their expenses are comparatively much lower than those of a fast food chain serving numerous countries and employing. Burger King is a magnitude smaller at only locations, but is still in roughly the same boat for the same reasons. Wonder why that is…. In and Out are not 24 hour day facilities and menu is limited and most likely not as many franchised owners that have 7 or more under their command to operate thank you.

In-N-Out is a private company and probably has a much lower overhead as a result of being private and not having to deal with with all the public company geovernment bureaucracy. A CEO adds more value than a minimum wage worker, by definition. Even your buddy Lenin acknowledged that from each according to his gifts, to each according to his needs — later modified to — according to his contributions.

Your statement below that a minimum wage burger flipper is every bit as valuable as a line manager or the CEO is quite simply false to fact — at least according to the market, and oh, yes, according to everyone ELSE. I challenge you to run ANY business beyond managing your own underwear and even those are filthy, Ross Alexandar!

You are a liar, a fake, a scammer, or just a plain idiot. You could have run nothing but dishwater your entire life and STILL not provide the contribution that any mid-level manager does for ONE MINUTE of her time on a DULL DAY.

If mcdonalds, burger king had to pay The products that they buy are purchased still at the same amount and are relatively inexpensive. I was told that due to most of those workers now are on public assistance and so much welfare goes to those workers that if you calculate the price for a.

If we raise the wage to 15 the majority would no longer qualify for public benefits and the cost per burger would be 1. So based on the info i was given it costs us more as a country to pay them near minimum wage than if we just raised the wage and paid 1. And since no one would go for that, the alternative is that they close a lot of locations and fire a lot of workers. Which means that about k people could potentially lose their jobs.

There is profit being made but not that much. How much do you think it would cost for a burger and fries? Look at the average price of a burger there. So if all these places take that away we will notice? Why should they get their labor subsidized the government? They should pay a livable wage just like the rest of us do. I run a very successful business and pay my employees a very good wage as well. And that is on top of providing their health insurance at no cost to them.

Because it is good business. These executives at MCD need to figure out how to run their business without getting their employee wages propped up with welfare and other aid. They should pay a living wage or close their door, just like the rest of us do.

If I can do it then so can they. How many In and Out burger commercials do you see per day? How many different burgers and menus have they had over the last several years? In and Out has served the same burgers and same crappy fries from the start, you hardly ever see an In and Out sponsored NASCAR vehicle or dozens of commercials a day.

First off, get the emotion out of the conversation and let supply and demand decide where wages and associated price for goods should be. At the end of the day, if you want higher wages, get a job that pays higher wages.

We are not addressing the true issue. That issue is Corporations that can pay higher wages, refuse to do so. Walmart is a classic example. They are making billions in profits. Therein lies the problem. How about treating their employees fairly? There are plenty of other peons more than willing to work for slave wages.

It is not a question of what a company can pay it is the market value of the labor that determine wages. There is not single one these protesters that can not replaced by central American child given a two week training program. The fact that these people had they spent the same time in energy in obtaining a higher paying job would have one means this is political theater by people with an axe to grind ginned up by big unions desperate to stay relavent. Many of those fast food, retail, and service workers would be in factories making good quality products and making enough money to really boost our economy.

We decided to transition for the sake of saving a few dollars, and now prices are still going up while wages still fall short. Raising minimum wage is only a bandaid. The solution will require sacrifices by all Americans. We can sit around and blame political parties, but at the end of the day we are the only ones who shoulders the blame and has the power to solve this problem. Everyone is just afraid of poor people raising out of the gutter. I earn much less than Labor Sec Perez and Paul Krugman and have a regular full time job yet my wife an I opened up an run our own restaurant.

They have the money. Not all business models are the same. It is great that some businesses can pay a lot. So get a job with them.

That is the way it works. Government can take less tax money from those that make minimum wage. The government can expand on the EITC which will help but does not get the politicians any votes. Raising the minimum wage will continue to only hurt those that need help the most by totally removing them from the work force and raising prices for everyone else.

MD is NOT the issue. BK is not the issue. It is the mom and pop eateries and shops and stores. The VAST majority of enterprises in this country are…. This min wage crap will DEVASTATE small business employment. Beware of unintended consequences. WHy because McDonald are profit driven not people driven thats whats wrong with America the average worker not just minimum wage jobs are being exploited by corporaTIONS.

Thats why they hate unions because union insist on fair wages. I have 2 degrees and Im malin what it did 10 years ago. The huge corporation is not who pays them. Grow up and get over it. You want to put your life savings on the line and work 16 hr days for 30 years just for a warm fuzzy feeling, go right ahead. So they can do it by hiring better employees that actually work instead of a bunch of stand around and goof off bums.

Makes sense to me, lose the dead wood and the good employees can make more. Of course, those are not the ones working for minimum wage now and thinking they deserve more.

Get a raise,get a union,lose a part of the raise,for union dues and fees for their PACs and you will have no choice about it,obama has done that to you. Try it yourself before commenting next time. In fact, that kinda flips the whole narrative that In N Out treats its employees better on its head. In N Out obviously has a far superior business model. In N Out and Moo Cluck Moo are privately held companies.

This is getting boring. You can spin it any way you like but these are the facts: The problem is corporate GREED and an unwillingness to share profits with lower end employees. The cost of a Big Mac is FIFTY CENTS HIGHER if you buy it in Sweden. You are all believing a bunch of Hooey posted by Right-Wingnuts TeaBaggers and Fox News Cretins. If the Minimum Wage is raised and the workers spend it will boost the entire economy.

Of course they will NOT tell you this because they are having a ball enjoying the sweat of SLAVE WAGES they pay employees.

It is a national disgrace. Every state has a different min wage,and these chains dont bitch,and their prices dont change. Corporate Greed pure and simple. What will happen is people will lose their jobs. It happens every time they raise the minimum wage. If the people working for the minimum wage want to really improve they can get an education or learn a valuable trade, like plumbing or painting. That is just the truth, and half the time they have an attitude problem.

Managers make, in certain places more than a teacher with her masters makes. This is just a joke. They seemed to have passed over the Good news —bad news —in their article about raising the minimum wage.

A million lifted out of poverty and a half million loose their jobs. But then the half million will land on the welfare rolls and probably stay there!

But as with all thing liberal if it feels good at that moment screw the long term consequences. Parkers the world would move forward again. But you have to want it. What about the person who is working at a better job and getting the same amount of money??? And when the cost goes up, so will cost of food and housing.

But, 30 years ago, many families did not expect to be treated to Happy Meals and personal phones for 10 yr olds. We had 1 small tv. Most did in my neighborhood. Most McDonalds workers are slow and in general not too bright. This is real simple. Been to In and Out. They have a really limited menu, requiring less folks. Technology increases in recent history, for the most part, were accompanied by productivity and pay increases. The steam shovel replaced pick and shovel workers, but those workers could move into higher paying jobs that were needed to support the steam shovel.

Everything from making steel, manufacturing components, assembly workers, transportation workers, maintenance and operation workers. With more money and time on their hands the need for houses, cars, etc… increased. For example, Parkdale Mills, a textile producer in South Carolina reopened in In it would have required over 2, workers to produce that amount of product.

Increased productivity by reducing the human component. I own several businesses, recently my full time bookkeeper retired and I replaced her with a person making half of what she was making per hour. As a business owner this comes down to return on investment ROI.

Do I hire a human being or incorporate some kind of software or automation to carry out the functions that I need. Even our tax code provides business with greater tax deductions and incentives for investing in real estate, machinery and equipment than it does for investing in human capital. Other than face to face interactions with another human, machines are far more cost effective and easier to maintain.

This is being hidden by the way the unemployment numbers are being counted shadowstats and the massive benefits the government is providing, otherwise there would be rioting in the streets. On April 19thMcDonalds hired over 50, thousand workers; the sad part is that there were over a million applicants for those 50k jobs.

As much as we want to help the world we have become that person in a plane when the oxygen masks drop who fails to put on their mask first and thus dies while trying and failing to save everyone around them. Government programs that encourage large families need to be cut back.

As the supply of workers dries up, the amount that business will need to pay for those workers will also go up. It is hard medicine but we can take it now at our own pace or have it forced upon us at a later date.

ROI — Trying to legislate increases in wages will only result in a few people with higher wages and a lot more losing their jobs to automation.

From a business point of view the tax code is where this can be done most effectively. We need to make it more advantageous to hire people than to buy machinery. If you want to increase domestic jobs then make this policy only apply to jobs within the borders of the US and only for citizens of the US.

I would also grant businesses a double deduction for any training they provide. Even though I pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes to the local school district, there seems to be the thought out there that as a business I need to train my employees in how to do the job even if that is learning how to do basic math and how to write something that is longer than characters without using smiley faces or hashtags!!

That is the way Free Enterprise is supposed to work. But of course we no longer have truly Free Enterprise. If taxpayers are basically paying your employees for you, then there is a reason for the government to get involved. Once again—what McDonalds pays is none of your business. Open your own business and pay what you want. Tired of people saying what someone else needs to do!!

I AM a proponent that if they are actively working their way up to management, supervisor and maybe someday an owner and have spent yrs working there, they should have a gradual raise system. Unskilled labor like operating a cash register is NOT skilled labor.

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