AlexPayne_1278

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I think this fits very well.

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I hope that i am posting this in the right area, but I wanted to post this from the debate, and my feelings about this: (part 1)
"There is no evidence that when you raise the minimum wage businesses go out of business" Joe Biden --- SAY WHAT???!!!!! I normally don't comment on this stuff, but this is BS. If a business was to raise the minimum wage, 2 things will happen: #1: Prices of your products will go up to help support the increase in minimum wage #2: Employees will be let go, or hours cut, to help off-set the wage increase. As a former shift supervisor, I had to watch the "Labor Costs". If the labor was higher then a certain percentage, I had to send people home. I then had less staff on hand for when a "rush" came in. This increased fatigue on the employees and management staff. Let's give an example of "Price Increase". 2002 a McDonald's Big Mac cost $2.39. Today (10-22-2020) that same burger costs $4.39. That's an increase of $2.00. What was Minimum wage in 2002? $5.15 per hour. What's the minimum wage today? $7.25. You would need to sell 1.6666 Big Macs an hour to cover 1 Employee. If you have 1 counter, 1 D.T., 1 Cook totaling 3 people at $7.25/hr -> $21.75/hr in labor you would need to sell 5 Big Macs in that 1 hour. Let's now make those 3 people make $15.00/hr - $45.00/hr in Labor. Big Mac still costs $4.39, you would need to sell 10.34482 Big Macs in that hour.

(part 2)
Yes McDonalds has more than the Big Mac, but it's the "Iconic" Burger, so that's why it's used. This isn't accounting for Shift Supervisors or Managers, this is just Employees. Lets add a Shift Manager, and say they make $10.00 right now, and subtract the counter person. This brings the Labor costs to $24.50. McD's would need to sell 5.6321 Big Macs. OK, so same labor, and keep the same spacing of shift supervisor to employee wage (Difference of $2.75), to the $15.00 Minimum Wage. Labor Costs would be $47.75, meaning that McD's would need to sell 10.97701 Big Macs per hour. This isn't counting the lights and power to run the equipment and registers. This isn't counting the price of product. This is just Labor. I can give proof of concept in real time right now. $4.39 is the price where I live. In Los Angeles, California the price of a Big Mac is $5.89. Minimum Wage in Los Angeles is $13.00/hr. Same Burger, same stuff to make it, but $1.50 more in Los Angeles than where I am. So tell me that I am wrong when I state facts #1 and #2. Show me proof that I am wrong. Yes, I would like to see a wage increase, but not to where it's going to kill small businesses and cause companies to not hire as many employees. Yes I used McDonalds, but they are a national brand, so it was easy to compare prices between different areas.

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