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How Much Fast Food Workers Earn In Every State

Discussion in 'Current Events' started by signalmankenneth, Oct 12, 2014.

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  1. signalmankenneth

    signalmankenneth Well-Known Member

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    What is your definition of a living wage?

    Answer that and we can begin a discussion.

    Liberals like to throw the catch phrase "living wage" around without thinking about what it means.
     
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    You want to earn more money, learn a skill that commands more money.
     
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  7. trucker

    trucker Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    12.09 hr France is lower inflation rate then the us? [​IMG]
    but unemployment rate is higher [​IMG]
     
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    Austrialia has a separate minimum wage for young fast food workers, they make about the same as here and there food prices are higher.

    Not every job is worth a "living wage" but two minimum wage workers will earn in the mid-$30k's which is livable.

    And those are countries not states last I looked.
     
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    The same drones who scream for mandated entry level "living wages"
    vote for people who will flood the entry level labor market with millions of would-be-legitimized unskilled, uneducated border jumpers.

    which proves a severe deficit in knowledge of the most basic laws of economics
     
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    trucker Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    nope the food prices are falling in Australia this year http://www.news.com.au/finance/mone...cery-prices-fall/story-e6frfmci-1226963111398
     
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    Nightmare515 Ragin' Cajun Staff Member Past Donor

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    *Sigh* here we go again.

    Alright OP before this thread gets to be 30 pages like they always do please explain your plan for providing a living wage. How would you go about implementing this?
     
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    Australia also is yanking freedom from the people. Last year they were the first nation to ban anti-government speech on twitter. Basically the labor-green party in charge over there do not like people talking negatively about them so they told Twitter to censor any comments by Australians, which they did.
     
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    Profit sharing, take the profits from each franchise after expenses and other costs and require that half is split with the workers, half the owner or corporation keeps. And reduce the hourly wage to a tipped wage in a state counted to the expenses. I suspect the income would be higher seeing the income of most franchises and corporate run restaurants.
     
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    ok wow they have high rent prices there and cigs are off the hook pricey
    http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-livin...jsp?country1=Australia&country2=United+States
    Pack of Cigarettes (Marlboro) 20.00 A$ 6.91 A$ -65.46 %
     
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    And what if the company makes very little profit?

    How would that give their employees a living wage? Suppose I open a little bar in my local town and only make a tiny profit?
     
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    Do you believe the federal government should make that a law? Or are you saying this is something that companies "should" do?
     
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    Exactly, how about operating at a loss? Should the employees get nothing if the business loses money? Are the employees willing to pay for infrastructure, like a new POS system, or maintenance on the roof, or filling in the potholes in the parking lot? Opening and running a business is a risk and big responsibility. Flipping burgers...not so much.
     
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    Employees already pay the price when the company does poorly.
    It only makes sense then that they ought share in the rewards when it does well.

    -Meta
     
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    What price do they pay? If a company doesn't make a profit, the employees have to be paid wages, by law.
     
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    Why not pay fast food workers as much as they can be paid? After all their last few years of working should be happy ones.

    Check this out:

    http://momentummachines.com/#product

    The days of low skilled jobs are numbered.
     
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    What price do they pay?....What price do they pay????? What kind of question is that?

    If a company does poorly, employes can find themselves taking pay cuts, getting their hour reduced, or losing their job!
     
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    They can't get a pay cut for work done, and they definitely can't get a pay cut if they're making minimum wage. Yes they can have hours reduced or lose their job....but what's the owner supposed to do?

    You would have the company owner take ALL the risk. The employee who takes NO risk should be rewarded above and beyond no matter what. Great, start a business on that model and let me know how it works out.
     
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