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Only 12% of all voters were under thirty yesterday.. Really depressing if your a democrat.. great news if you lean right..
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Get StartedIf a significant portion of your workforce is on assistance, that's a form of subsidy. It's cheating the ideas that make capitalism good.
This is just false. Smoking marijuana is so much worse for you than tobacco so if smoking tobacco in moderation is bad for your health, how can you be foolish enough to think smoking marijuana in moderation is not?
How many of those arrests are for people who were actually dealing vs. simple possession? are the numbers for dealing similar across racial groups? I bet they're not even close. I'm sure you can put some kinda spin on that to show that minorities are being kept poor by the Republicans and therefore have no choice but to deal drugs so you can keep your racism narrative alive but the reality is, drugs and drug related crime including marijuana are a bigger problem for the poor than for middle class and the wealthy regardless of what usage numbers say.
This is unbelievable. Are you saying you're tax dollars are subsidizing McDonald's because they don't overpay their employees? That is beyond ridiculous. Wages are determined by the value of the work, not by what it costs to live in a given society. Every economy has low skill jobs like that - are you saying we should force employers to pay enough so that people can make a career of being a cashier or scooping ice cream? It's amazing to me that you can't see how these policies destroyed manufacturing jobs in this country, now you want low skill employers to foot the bill? What do you think is going to happen to those jobs? Shocking.
It's ridicules not to pay hamburger flippers at McDonalds a livable wage.. Those fry workers work their ass off for that billion dollar corporation... So yeah they can pay workers more. not everyone is smart enough to go to college you nitwit... It amazes me how you fail to see that corporation tax breaks are at a record High.. But you just want more for Big Business.. Sweet.. I guess tax breaks are just not enough for you..
Only 12% of all voters were under thirty yesterday.. Really depressing if your a democrat.. great news if you lean right..
It's ridicules not to pay hamburger flippers at McDonalds a livable wage.. Those fry workers work their ass off for that billion dollar corporation...
It's ridicules not to pay hamburger flippers at McDonalds a livable wage.. Those fry workers work their ass off for that billion dollar corporation...
Only 12% of all voters were under thirty yesterday.. Really depressing if your a democrat.. great news if you lean right..
it's a form of subsidy to the worker, not corporations. Wages for low skilled jobs aren't low because of food stamps, welfare and unemployment insurance and if they were that would be an argument for getting rid of those programs, not increasing them. And I've said time and again on this forum, I'm more against corporate welfare than social welfare. An employer's responsibility is not to pay whatever it costs to live in a society - their responsibility is to pay people what their labor is worth.
Just for the sake of calling Apples apples, for the most part they really don't.
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McDonald's Corporation doesn't pay the wages of most of the people who work at McDonald's. The small business operator/franchisee does.
Again, just to be sure that were actually calling apples apples.
that's technically true, and has been used by franchisors for a while, although:
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[/INDENT]...and because of this, the indirect control, the NLRB recently held McDonald's was jointly an employer along with the franchisee.
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Yesterday was a old foggy vote.. Young people stayed away in droves like they always do in midterms..
How do we deal with low wages? I'm genuinely curious, I hear all the talk about big bad mega corporations and lazy/entitled citizens, but no viable solutions are produced.
I don't think raising the minimum wage is the answer, it forces companies to pay more for the same work, they're either going to cut positions, raise prices, or both in order to compensate. I don't think cutting assistance will work either, it's not going to magically motivate people to get 2nd or 3rd jobs, or fork over a shit ton of money to further their education.
Call it a cultural problem if you want, but it's still a problem we have to deal with and there's no quick fix.
I fall under the "young voter" category and admittedly did not vote, never even considered it, I am disgruntled yet apathetic.
How do we deal with low wages? I'm genuinely curious, I hear all the talk about big bad mega corporations and lazy/entitled citizens, but no viable solutions are produced.
I don't think raising the minimum wage is the answer, it forces companies to pay more for the same work, they're either going to cut positions, raise prices, or both in order to compensate. I don't think cutting assistance will work either, it's not going to magically motivate people to get 2nd or 3rd jobs, or fork over a shit ton of money to further their education.
Call it a cultural problem if you want, but it's still a problem we have to deal with and there's no quick fix.
yes, paying wages cuts into profits, shocking, just one of those unfortunate expenses of running a multi billion dollar corporation, just like raw materials, taxes, real estate costs, etc. If you want to get rich on a tax free enterprise with no product, start a mega church.
Who are you saying is lazy/entitled? the low wage worker at walmart or mcdonalds? i just want clarification here
also, yes wages cut into profits so they either make less profit or raise prices to the true cost of their goods and services. labor cost is one of those unfortunate aspects of running a business
Those fry workers work their ass off for that billion dollar corporation...
it's a form of subsidy to the worker, not corporations. Wages for low skilled jobs aren't low because of food stamps, welfare and unemployment insurance and if they were that would be an argument for getting rid of those programs, not increasing them. And I've said time and again on this forum, I'm more against corporate welfare than social welfare. An employer's responsibility is not to pay whatever it costs to live in a society - their responsibility is to pay people what their labor is worth.
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