20.00 a hour for mcdonalds

Yeah, I suspect in most parts of Cali it would not be binding in that the mkt min > $20. Nowhere in Colo is the min wage binding w/ the poss exception of E. Colo.

 

It’s in California. I believe cashiers at Publix in Tampa are making $15…

 

wherein the snark of the post you are replying to straight over your pointy head due to your poor reading comprehension.

 

Wait, so if you eat less the cost of food will be less? Interesting concept

 

When you can't find employees to run your business, you have to raise wages, and/or provide other incentives.

 

Well, if they can't recognize the difference in cost of living they'll probably have much bigger problems in life. But if they think that they want to improve their skills for more compensation I'd encourage that. Might be hard for someone with such limited knowledge of the country and basic differences between areas.

 

A combo meal at McDonalds is now like $11-13.

They can afford it.

 

Why don’t you go work somewhere for $20 an hour and see how life altering it is?

 

Yes, but they had to serve 22 billion burgers to make that.

 

16/8 here. IFing FTW!

 

Price inflation = wage inflation

 

Ok. This then begs the question: How do you propose high COL areas survive without unskilled labor? Unskilled labor is a necessity everywhere.

 

Illegal immigration. Our gov has been subsidizing industries since 1865 using this method.

 

Agreed. This is the reality. Yet, often the same people up in arms over paying unskilled labor higher wages are also the same ones that are against immigration reform.

 

I don't think this is a correct characterization. Being against central planning & price fixing does NOT = being against paying unskilled labor higher wages.

the ole, you don't care about poor people if you are opposed to price fixing arg. I have a VERY strong hunch that across diff economies, price fixing & poverty are very closely correlated.

 

Neither side wants immigration reform, as both sides use the unskilled labor in their industries. You will see that change once automation takes hold over the economy at large and the gov has to take care of these people. When it starts eating into their pockets, morality goes out the door. It's not really a Dem or Pub issue, it's more of an upper class issue.

 

I didn't say I was for this price fixing scheme. I asked a simple question

 

there was not a Q in the post I responded to.