All the fear mongering about a $15 minimum wage, and it still happens even though we have proof that the fear mongering of high fast food costs didn't happen.
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Every time a raise in the minimum wage is proposed. The corporate media (owned by the owners of society) loses it's collective minds.
The sky is falling, communism is coming etc.
These same corporations fund politicians who attack workers rights, go after unions and push billionaires agendas.
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If we want to raise minimum wage by $0.75/hr, that will cause the company to go bankrupt and society will collapse into a post-apocalyptic Mad Max hellscape.
But if they want to pay the CEO $52 BILLION for one year, that is not worth mentioning.
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The min wage in Washington state is $16.66. In Seattle it’s $20.76. And we don’t pay tip wages here. Waiters get at min $16.66 an hour. Guess how much our take out and dine in costs. That’s right, the same as places that pay tip wages and the federal minimum.
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Minimum wage in Canada is up around the $17 dollar an hour range and they seem to get by okay...
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Wondering then how prices got raised so much in a last decade while minimum wage didn’t. By her logic gas should still cost $2.89, bread $1.20 or gallon of milk $2.99.
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So…. What she’s saying is that her cheap, lousy food should regulate the workers to a lifetime of poverty. Got it.
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My favorite is that paying more to the government because of tariffs is patriotic. But paying more for living wages is fucking socialist. Gag.
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In Hawai’i, the crispy chicken burritos are $7.59, But you can get cheesy bean & rice for $1.99
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Nice response by Brian Talyor Cohen. Is it too much to ask that we pay full-time workers at least $20 an hour?
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Rachel Jordan is a filthy liar. Got it.
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But tariffs won’t affect you at all!! ( in same maga breath.)
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Shit, European fast food can get Healthcare and paid vacation too, while working part time, and it STILL costs less.
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$8 burritos for $17/hr.
would be more, but they keep everyone under 20 hours a week so to save in labor costs (required benefits over 20 hours)
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It’s pure elitist claptrap, of course.
They’ve studied Min wage increases for DECADES and we’ve never once raised it enough to cause measurable inflation in the a macroeconomic sense
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To be fair, math is not their strong suit.
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They try to connect having a livable wage to cost rising.. So what is their reasoning for cost rising without minimum wage rising? The price still goes up! Don’t let them fool you! There is no connection between this.
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Supply & demand dictates price . There was a rumor that in D.C. there would be Taco Trucks on every corner. Is this true?😛
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Of course, when you add in the health effects and subsequent care, $38 might be the true price.
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maga folks consume so much b.s. they don't need burritos.
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It amazes me that ardent capitalist supporters have no clue how economics works. They refuse facts that don’t fit their narrative.
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How the hell would this person explain Costco, then?
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How much is Jordan Rachel paid to be an imbecile? Follow up: Who the fuck is "the" Jordan Rachel?
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It's just a scare tactic to keep us at bay. Like telling us that if we do Medicare for all, we will never see a doctor. It's funny how every other 1st world country figured it out. I guess our leaders are either lazy, stupid, or stealing from us.
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If you want people to buy your Tacos and other products, pay them a living wage. It ain’t rocket surgery.
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Jordan probably thinks that tax cuts for the 1% are a good thing!
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She probably means in 2059 which is where she would keep the minimum wage.
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If you want a TACO for president, don't complain when your healthcare costs double #MedicareForAll
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Wait, so she thinks it takes more than two hours to make a burrito? 😅
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Businesses expand when they have paying customers
The wages they pay are also their incomes
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Stupid people with no sense whatsoever!
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No such things as 38.00 fast food tacos or burgers in Canada.
That said.. if you need slavery wages to sustain fast food, perhaps the right move is to abandon the fast food.
What’s with the constant billionairism protection in the USA?
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Nothing worse than an arrogant dumbass
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Perhaps you've forgotten about the institute of marriage being destroyed by The Gays.
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Maines minimum wage is $14/hr. 🌲🌮
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California’s is 20 and fast food isn’t much if any more expensive. One other great result of it is my daughter who Nannie’s while in college is now earning 27 an hour. They pay her a premium to keep her out of a potentially easier job
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A few dollars less to the parent company. Easy peasy
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Jordan Rachel is a self serving twat.
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Never been in one, is anything actually cooked on site?
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Republicans/Inds really seem to celebrate their stupidity, don't they. Wonder if they even know it is embarrassing to be stupid.
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they also think 750K+ deaths is a typical flu season that <0.01% is widespread voter fraud and supply-side economics is only trickling down their face
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I certainly wouldn't pay 38 for her burrito.
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If the burrito jumps to $38 it will bc of tariffs and ridiculous CEO pay.
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I swear to god only idiots who fail economics are in the gop now.
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🙄Drip down economics? Is a billionaire likey to hang out a taco bell? You know the ones who got the tax cuts. Or a blue collar worker & family? Give them a living wage & they dine out more & prices go down as volume goes up, as do profits??
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It reminds me of when Lexington KY passed an indoor smoking ban. Every doomsayer in 50 miles proclaimed the end to all restaurants forever. Guess what happened? People like me who couldn't stand to be in smoky restaurants made up for every customer they lost. If they even lost any.
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$38 for a burrito where in the US? Maybe if you order online and add extra meat or some shit and don't have DashPass or some shit. These ppl love to yap.
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Obviously paying someone a decent salary so they don't live in poverty should be weighed against theoretically paying more for a burrito. Priorities are important.
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so sure of themselves.
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lower wages = richer billionaires
guess what's gonna happen
nothing.
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Similar here in Massachusetts. Our minimum wage is also $15 with an effect on menu prices very much like the one Jonathan describes.
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It's funny how those same people don't seem to care that, thanks to Trump's TARRIFS, a burrito at Taco Bell now costs $45 and 10% of your future earnings, and minimum wage is still under $8 in most places.
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If Taco Bell wants to charge $38 for a burrito they are free to do so. They will either adjust the price downwards or close the business.
That's how free enterprise works; buy the overpriced burrito or go somewhere you can afford...
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I will bet that Jordan Rachel voted for Don the Con. I wonder if she can spell tariff.
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Don’t confuse them with facts.
They can’t handle the truth.
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Several problems, First it was the Democrats who shot down the $15 Min Wage. Second it probably needs to be at least $30 since the $15 thing was pre Bidenflation. You can complain all you want but if neither Right Wing Corporate Party wants Living Wages, we will not have them. #LivingWage
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Sound argument for a Living Wage but a Taco Bell Burrito is only worth $1.25 not $3.75.
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Be honest it is proven fact minimum wage increases increase cost of living in the areas they are implemented.
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Paul Krugman calls those kinds of lies, zombie lies because they refuse to die. Very apt.
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it's an anceint conservative tradition at this point: they claimed even instituting a minimum wage would destroy the economy, same with the 40 hour work week. It's a tale as old as workers getting sick of their boss's palace while they can barely afford rent.
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Reds are all about spreading fear and actually reveling in being afraid. It’s socializing to this group.
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I have a cousin that said that shit. "We can't ask for money, everything will cost more!"
Really, because everything is already costing more. Are you saying we should just accept what they give us and never complain? Even though we can't afford basics like rent, food, etc?
He never had an answer.
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Where are all these fiscal conservatives now that the tariffs are directly raising prices? Guess they love inflation now. At least raising the minimum wage means more money in some pockets that would go back into the economy. Trump is going to blow the tariff $$ on a golden ballroom ffs.
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Same in NJ, minimum wage here is currently $15.49
Taco Bell basic cheesy bean and rice burrito is $1.79 Bean burrito is $2.29 Grilled steak burrito is $3.00 The most expensive 5-layer burrito supreme is $6.79
(I was at a Taco Bell when reading your post)
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His fans tend to believe whatever he says!
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How bout those profit margins, stock options and executive bonuses tho? Eh
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It's always so amazing to me that MAGAts will feed all of these easily checked falsehoods to other dumbassed, MAGAts. Facts so easily checked...but will they check? Of course not, it's so much easier to continue feeding the established narrative, when you ignore the actual facts.
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Since a burrito takes about 30-45 seconds to put together and less than $1 of ingredients, I am assuming this is a recrimination of corporate greed??
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The GOP has rejected math, science, and objective reality.
Faith over facts.
Don't confuse them with reality.
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Been higher than fifteen for several years in my state.
Burger prices haven't been affected at all.
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From a pure economic perspective, it makes sense that prices could rise when the minimum wage is increased. This is particularly true for basic goods. The good news is that the increase in prices is typically small.
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She probably doesn’t work, living off mom and dad, out of touch😡
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Corporations with the Chamber of Commerce always try to keep wages down
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These chowderheads never get it. Companies are making record profits but no let's blame the poor for expecting to be paid a living wage.
Don't blame the wealthy, it's the fault of the poor!
Keep helping the 1% dummies.
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Please don't go and confuse them with facts. It damages their narrative.
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Look at you with your fancy-pants elitist facts, and evidence, and reality.
Truth has a liberal bias.
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I do love a good takedown of bad information.
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That’s not true about the most expensive burrito being $3.79 though. That hasn’t been the case in a VERY long time
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True Market believers can't even recognise the relation between profits and prices!
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OMG what dumbshits. Minimum wage in WA state is just shy of $17 and Taco Bell is pretty much the same price here as everywhere else. At least no one complains. 🙄 I don't GAF about such things but I've never once heard anyone complain about fast food prices.
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I'm not sure about al you all out there, but all prices have gone up! I ordered a meal and about spit when it came out over 10 bucks FOR ONE! Grocery prices arent down either, GD businesses never went down to pre covid prices and just kept prices high and have gone higher!
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Sooo, fast food employees should be paid a barely subsistent wage so everyone else can get cheap burgers?
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$15 isn’t exactly a livable wage, but even if it were and that meant burritos would be $38 (which it wouldn’t), paying workers less than a livable wage because $38 is too high, means that the worker is subsidizing your meal
In economics it’s called externalizing costs
Capitalism doesn’t serve us
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We have a $19.00 living wage level in London 🇬🇧. And free healthcare. And capped medication price at £120 a year. For all meds for everything. Our police are majority not carrying guns. Decent free schooling. Centre of universe in London.
Please take your VP back. He’s being a right wanker.
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The problem isn't the minimum wage. The problem is CEO and management salaries that are totally out of whack.
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I don’t disagree with the main point, but this is like 2019 context.
Fast food prices are fckd now (and not because of minimum wage).
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Heck! They fear mongered and manipulated these lemmings into cutting their own throats let alone wages,clean air,water or any kind of future for Murica.
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Jordan is drunk again.
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The minimum wage in Australia is $24.95 per hour.
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It doesn't matter. Your Taco Bell burrito is not worth making someone homeless. I am tired of everyone being a complete selfish cunt.
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My state has a $15.49 minimum wage. We still have workers to pump gas for us. So have her explain why our gas is still about $0.15 less/gallon than our neighboring state that subsists on the federal minimum wage?
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If you are for emancipation, don't be surprised when you can't afford coffee, sugar, fine cotton goods, and our genteel Southern lifestyle.
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Why do you let facts get in the way of a perfectly lovely belief
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Here's an idea: pay workers better and take it out of the pockets of upper management.
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Maybe the shareholders could just skip that avocado toast and Starbucks. 🤷♀️
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It's also hilarious that the Waltons supported Trump given that his regime is trying to eliminate welfare nationwide for the nonwealthy. Pushing Wally World employees onto welfare is how they get away with slave wages for low level employees in the first place.
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Lying is all they know how to do. The minimum wage in Canada is between $15 and $18 per hour. We also get free health and basic dental care.
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Minimum wage in Australia is 25 bucks per week. Our economy isn’t circling the drain. I’d quote you taco prices but I don’t have a Taco Bell in my city.
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McDonald’s in Denmark wage is $22.00 an hour.
All menu items are almost exactly the same as in the USA
It’s 👻 💩 argument
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Wait... is that guy paying $14 for taco bell with the minimum wage at $7.25 right now?! Does he know they're scamming him?! OH NO THE POOR GUY
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Why should people who work a job be able to afford to live!?! Pff, not in my country…
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#facts about minimum wage…
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Anyone asking for a minimum wage less than $20 at this point doesn't know how hard it is to survive right now. And it's only going to get worse. If wages kept up, we would be all living very well. Instead, the past generations voted to grow their stock portfolios and deregulate. Leaving us Fd.
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My MAGA dad screams about this all the time.
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Because in her addled brain it takes 2 hours to make a fucking burrito Not everybody is as stoned as she is apparently if you have the right process it doesn’t take very long at all Whodathunk?
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She clearly can’t read. $3.79 isn’t $38.00
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$38 for a burrito? That's a bargain! A single orange taco will cost the average American family $2,400!
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Who orders just one burrito? All you need is to order a reasonable amount of burritos, say 10, and the math works out.
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The purveyors of these lies aren't even people who are committed to their bullshit. They're mostly little girls and little boys who are in it 100% for the attention that they didn't get from mommy and daddy when they were growing up. No other explanation.
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But MAGAtards PERCEIVE it costs $38, so it MUST COST THAT!!
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Add to that the fact that fast food prices have risen dramatically everywhere regardless of the local wage, and the food quality has gone down substantially. So the hourly wage is not going to make a difference, the chains will just continue to cut costs other ways.
