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ANTHONY MOORE said For the past year, I’ve worked at a Burger King in Tampa, Florida, making $9 an hour. Taxes are taken right out of my paycheck like they are for most people in America.
But Burger King doesn’t want to pay its fair share. Burger King wants to be seen as an All-American brand, and it is happy to benefit from taxpayer subsidies.
Why is this a surprise? The United States has 1 of the highest corporate taxes in the world, and they tax US companies for income all over the world, many other countries do not. Eventually companies will find ways to minimize that tax, and moving abroad so that they only have to pay tax on the income actually earned in the United States is the easiest way to do that.
Also I have a hard time seeing where Burger King is based as an argument on why fast food workers deserve $15 an hour, it does nothing to add to that argument.
Now if the argument is that Burger King should stay in the US and the US government should reform the tax code to something more similar to the rest of the world, and than maybe in a better position to give raises we may have a discussion but that is not the point of the article at all.
Yes, because people never lose their jobs or fall on hard times.
If a person is financially, mentally and emotionally ready to support a family then they will have an easier time pulling through when they experience hard times, etc.
Ditto, WyoEagle. If I lacked marketable skills suited for earning enough for a family, I would NOT have kids at that point in time. To have them when you cannot raise them is incredibly selfish.
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Another typical worker without the skills or ambition to get a decent job, blaming his employer for trying to increase profits (as is the goal of any company). It's not BKs fault that he has kids without the income to support them. If he doesn't like working for $9 there he needs to find something better elsewhere, complaining about the company working to minimize expense and maximize profit isn't going to help his situation. I guess it's
easier then working to develop more marketable skills.
more to life than work, reproduction shouldn't be dependent on money. money is a trap. life means more. reproduction means more.
people should start distributing their own forms of currency. oh wait. bitcoin lol. not surprised. we need more of that. let this money thing die. it's being abused.
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