spurgeonryan said:
they made the poor choices in life. they stand there and flip a burger patty and repeat. why do they need more than minimum wage? they did not work hard in schoolb or did drugsb or got kidsb or etc. get a second job then. you pay for your choices in life. |
Because you're paying for it anyway. Let's say half of americans buy mcdonalds burgers.
Currently it's: burger - $1. (Buyer) federal tax spent to subsidise worker - $.20 (All Americans)
Ideally it'd be burger - $1.40 (Buyer) federal tax spent to subsidise worker - $0 (All Americans)
You see, all Americans are paying mcdonalds to make burgers whether they buy burgers or not. That's NOT fair. All of the cost to make a burger should be on the burger.
This is purely pragmatic, I believe the economy would be more efficient without that tax subsidy.
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On getting a second job: do you realise how detrimental to society working 60 or 80 hours is? The state ends up picking up the tab for their emergency medical care from stress/poor diet related conditions caused by having no break. Their kids don't get the support they need to get a good education. They fall out of the workforce at 45 with chronic illness. I promise you it's not economically viable in the long term.
Literally raising the cost of a burger by like 10% would save society and YOU a lot of money in the long run.
