Originally Posted By: sini
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You seem to be laboring under some illusion that your typical food shack could afford to pay people 15$/hr to drop fries in a deep fryer or run a cash register.


Absolutely they can. Looking at the stock price and financial reports, it does not appear that any of these mega-corps are in any danger of going out of business.

Your argument is demonstrably invalid.

Someone at Forbes run the numbers during Papa Jones debacle and concluded that comprehensive healthcare coverage would cost 4c per slice more.

Plus it isn't just fast food - it is fast food and retail. This is big chunk of all employment even during good times.



You are yet to address why the Taxpayer should be subsidizing wages, where corporations set them knowingly to below-livable level and expect us to pay the rest via social programs?


Um, no. And no. Your refusal to think anything through prevents you from getting a clear picture of how this works. You see a macro report and make assumptions that fit your predjudice, you obviously have no idea how things work on the store level. And it was the CEO of PapaJ himself who wrote what the increased input cost would be. Plus I do not get the impression this is not about Obamacare, you want everyone to make a lot more money in general.

As to the taxpayer picking up the bill - you seem to think twice as many people picking up full govt ride is better as opposed to fewer people picking up a partial govt ride. I find that silly.

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