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If people can't afford to pay $0.35 extra for their burger due to the burger flipper being paid enough to (also) eat, perhaps said people should ask for a raise.
If all the burger flippers at a fast food chain get a raise due to the crazy Biden-Bernie minimum wage, then there will be no money left in the company's budget to give anyone else making above $15 a raise at all. Tis is what Democrats really don't think about.
And the fact that Biden supports something this radical shows he's anything but moderate. He is to the left of Obama, who was the most far left president in history.
How much is a gallon of milk where you live ? Here - Orlando área- $4.55 Housing - one bedroom apt $ 1200 This is on the outskirts. Bradenton same, Miami add $5.60 for milk and Studio $1000 - Jacksonville can get wooden small house for $1000 and milk about $3.75. So how much after taxes and ins - etc does one need to live in a decent neighborhood?! The panhandle everyone lives in trailers. My grand stays in Marianna area. Only folks with money are the snowbirds and retirees. All the rest probably have kids to feed. Please !
I go to Pensacola Beach every summer, and many of us around here are already talking about how that $15 minimum wage in Florida is going to affect hotel and restaurant prices, and if that's going to increase the price difference between Pensacola and Destin vs Gulf Shores or Orange Beach since wages are lower in Alabama. If there DOES turn out to be a big price difference, even though Pensacola's beaches are slightly better than Orange Beach, more people might choose Orange Beach again, hence hurting the Florida economy.
I used to rent a 2 bedroom apartment in a gated apartment complex in a nice suburb of Baton Rouge for $1050 a month, the one bedroom units were like $850 a month, with water and sewer included plus a gym and pool. You can rent in the ghetto for like $450 a month. You can get a gallon of milk at Walmart here for much less than $4.55.
Someone working at a gas station in Molino, Florida does NOT need to be making $15 an hour! A gas station in the Keys, that might make sense.
A $15 wage will only make every area as expensive as New York City.
Yet some people in NYC have a cost of living elevated above other people within the exact same city. So by this logic we should let every block and street have its own MW too. The rent in different parts of NYC is as different from NYC to Kentucky.
And what be the "costs of living"? We have categorize, and officially set the benchmark for "costs of living". I dont see how we can do this. What food items will we use? People eat different things? Each food item differs from brand to brand too.
Now I KNOW you're trolling, the cost of living in NOT different in all parts of NYC. Yes, rent in the Bronx ghetto is a lot less than on Central Part West, but the housing quality and neighborhood is also far inferior.
Once again, this is in the expensive liberal states and cities. I don't deny that a $15 minimum wage is reasonable in New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco and Washington DC. It makes NO SENSE in West Virginia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Kansas, Wyoming, or Idaho. Within states it can be an issue too, such as Florida's $15 minimum and Virginia's which make sense in Miami and Northern Virginia but not in Southwest Virginia or the Florida Panhandle.
Business will adjust. It always has. If they have a product people want - they will come even if they raise the price. McD meal now like $7.50 the lines stay long.
Why do you want to keep people Poor?
$15 is double $7.50. That means inflation was 10% not 2%. The remaining 8% came out of your pocket every year. That is why your purchasing power has gone away.
I go to Pensacola Beach every summer, and many of us around here are already talking about how that $15 minimum wage in Florida is going to affect hotel and restaurant prices, and if that's going to increase the price difference between Pensacola and Destin vs Gulf Shores or Orange Beach since wages are lower in Alabama. If there DOES turn out to be a big price difference, even though Pensacola's beaches are slightly better than Orange Beach, more people might choose Orange Beach again, hence hurting the Florida economy.
I used to rent a 2 bedroom apartment in a gated apartment complex in a nice suburb of Baton Rouge for $1050 a month, the one bedroom units were like $850 a month, with water and sewer included plus a gym and pool. You can rent in the ghetto for like $450 a month. You can get a gallon of milk at Walmart here for much less than $4.55.
Someone working at a gas station in Molino, Florida does NOT need to be making $15 an hour! A gas station in the Keys, that might make sense.
A $15 wage will only make every area as expensive as New York City.
Pensacola milk is $4.17 Apts about $800 to $1000 a mo. Again for $8.65 minus taxes etc you want poverty. According to Forbes we now are at 11.7% of Americans living under that. I say you want low income to facilitate your vacations. Oh well - some others will pay. Maybe those making $15 hr can finally get a weekend get away !
Minimum wage should be zero.
What someone is willing to sell their labor for is up to them.
What someone is willing to pay for someone else's labor is up to them.
The o.p. thinks wages should be local. They should, but all the way down to the individual level.
Exactly. If wages are too low, no one will apply for the job. If wages are too high, workers will compete with each other and only those with the best skills will get hired.
The minimum wage should be dictated by the states, not the federal government. The cost of living is different from state to state. Who better to know that than the state legislature.
Somehow the left thinks Joe Biden whose only private sector job was as a lifeguard one summer is qualified to know the answer.
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