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Say goodbye to the dollar menu, my friends...
Submitted by sleepdog on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 14:16
...Hillary just promised to raise the minimum wage to $9.50 per hour. » |
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Good Riddance
to the dollar menu. They're exclusively corporate-owned places that have those dollar menus (at least in my area).
In my own silent (and insignificant) protest, I've recently decided to stop eating at corporate or franchise restaurants. Now I go to locally owned places; with the greatest preference given to those that I know buy at least some of their goods locally.
I like knowing that the revenues and profits remain mostly local; they employ local accountants, attorneys, etc in addition to their staff. They CONTRIBUTE to our community in many ways.
To further support these businesses I pay with cash. That way the restaurant owner doesn't have to lose money processing a bank-card transaction. I'd rather that extra 1-3% of my tab stay in my community rather than go to the CC processing fee.
I haven't sworn off fast food completely (I do love a McRib), but certainly don't crave it like I used to.
Restaurant owners don't love cash
Credit cards incur a fee (you got it right, 1% to 3%), but cash isn't perfect. Cash in the drawer can be lifted by employees, and requires security against thieves. Dealing with runs to the bank to deposit the cash takes time away from the merchant, whereas credit cards are automatically deposited.
It's not clear that cash is actually preferred. They both have their drawbacks.
In my smaller town they
In my smaller town they prefer cash. And yes Good Riddance to the dollar menu
I asked...
and that's what I was told by a couple of different owners. Maybe it's not best for everyone.
Why not just raise it to $100/hour
or better yet, send $1 million to each American and be done with it.
Actually the dollar menu will still be there, but the hamburgers will be very very small.
haha
Just like our dollars will be there
BUT WORTH VERY VERY LITTLE
Rich in NH
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Why stop at $1 million?
How about one ... BILLLION dollars? Muahahahaa.
The Objection is to the government
telling business what the minimum wage should be? I only ask because I have read that when (those in the lower income bracket) people have the minimum wage raised they spend more which helps the economy and business. Now, with people making $9.50 an hour the spending would be on food, clothes, necessities but still.......
Open for an education............
"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."
John Quincy Adams
Despite what the government
Despite what the government tells us, we are already in a recession. What good is $9.50 per hour when people are losing jobs? There will be more people making a bit more money, but there will also be more people without jobs. Prices will increase as well.
Hillary's suggestion will just make people feel good for a while and maybe win her a few votes. But ultimately, it will just cause the US financial crash to come all that much sooner..
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Slightly misleading answer
Slightly misleading answer re:'more people making a bit more money'. There would be fewer people working at the government-mandated minimun level, and more workload shifted to those who survive the correction business makes to deal with yet more regulation. Real unemployment will grow, not just the numbers of those standing in unemployment collection lines. Remember, those laid off are only eligible for 'insurance' payments for so long.
THE MORE I LEARN ABOUT GOVERNMENT
THE MORE I LOVE MY GUNS
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THE MORE I LEARN ABOUT GOVERNMENT
THE MORE I LOVE MY GUNS
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agree to the post below and also
such action would be the death knell for summer jobs for high school and college kids. Another criminal idea from the party of criminals.
Just ask Milton
This was from a 1975 interview with Milton Friedman. You can watch the interview here - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6813529239937418232
"FRIEDMAN: Because the minimum wage law is most properly described as a law saying employers must discriminate against people who have low skills. That's what the law says. The law says here's a man who would -- has a skill which would justify a wage rate of $1.50, $2.00 an hour. You can't, you may not employ him. It's illegal. Because if you employ him you have to pay him $2.50. Well, what's the result? To employ him at $2.50 is to engage in charity. Now there's nothing wrong with charity. But most employers are not in a position where they can engage in that kind of charity. Thus the consequences of minimum wage rates have been almost wholly bad, to increase unemployment and to increase poverty. Moreover, the effects have been concentrated on the groups that the do-gooders would most like to help. The people who have been hurt most by minimum wage laws are the blacks. I've often said that the most anti-Negro law on the books of this land is the minimum wage rate. And so I think the real answer to your question is that you must not judge a bottle solely by its label. You have to look at what's inside and see what the law or the measure produces. "
Saving quarters nickels and dimes, pays off national debt!
Perhaps we should take all our spare change to Washington and dump it there, let them figure out another way to pay off the debt like cutting spending!!!
In 1999, the U.S. Mint started producing a series of 50 "state" quarters, one for each state in the United States. They are scheduled to come out at a rate of five per year over 10 years. In other words, a new one is issued every 10 weeks or so. They are being released in the same order that the states joined the union.
The mint publishes production figures and figures indicate that the mint produces something like 300 million to 350 million quarters every month. Therefore, in a 10-week run, each state gets something like 800 million or so quarters minted. These quarters are dumped into general circulation by sending them out through the commercial bank network. Given that there are approximately 300 million people in the United States, there are at least two quarters for each state that every one of us can collect!
http://money.howstuffwork...
As these coins are pulled out of circulation, the demand for new currency rises. As the demand rises, the United States Mint produces greater quantities, creating more revenue (from seignorage), which is used to help pay off the nation’s debt.
grant!
I used to think that was a
I used to think that was a good idea, but don't any longer. If we all give all of our spare change to Washington it might make a dent in the national debt. But the troubling thing is that it would empower the establishment -- it would empower those who caused all these problems in the first place.
No, don't donate your quarters to Washington. Donate them in areas that will enable real change. That means donating to Ron Paul. When he gets in the White House then we will see real changes that will begin to turn things around.
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All this will do is make alternatives look more attractive
At those rates, fast food restaurants will outsource order taking remotely to India or China, use automated machines for taking cash and credit cards, and automate more of the assembly. It will be impossible for students to find jobs.
The Federal government would rather
raise the minimum wage than rein in spending and quit devaluing the dollar.
Wages in general, not just the minimum wage, have not kept pace with the real rate of inflation. This is one of the ways middle- and lower-income people are hurt by a devalued dollar.
Go Ron Paul!!!
Scott
The average voter doesn't get it...
She is swaying them left and right.
Let's take her idea to it's relevant extreme:
"Hey, the poor are still poor, even though we raised it to $9.50... let's raise it to $15.00! Better yet, let's make ALL the poor people rich by raising it to $1000.00 an hour!!!"
Yet, the average american doesn't realize that this is an empty promise promised by an empty brain.
Helping to Restore the Republic.
Fast Food Nation...what a
Fast Food Nation...what a book.
Rudy Jullie Annie
wanted to raise it to $9.11!
i don't know if that's true.
i don't know if that's true. but it sure is funny!!
In Soviet America
Giuliani makes 9/11 everyday
she
does not have the power to do it by herself, but it is a noble effort to try to get the votes. I don't believe it, especially with the Amero coming about.
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Haven't eaten there
Haven't eaten there probably 15 to 20 years ago, stopped taco bell about 5 or 6 years ago, and the rest recently. My stomach can't handle their poor excuses for food. Prefer my own hamburgers that I spice the way I like and I get to put chopped onions into the meat as well. I wonder if the drop could be related to that people just aren't able to eat the food any more. There is definitely no quality in their food and definitely no value.
Low end burgers
You get what you pay for (except decent government that is) I broke a tooth on a bit of hoof in a cheap burger as a youth once. Another time I found pieces of the plastic ear tag which I was told was the free kids meal puzzell. If you put the parts together you made the word 'Daisy'.
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You shouldn't be eating that stuff anyhow!
Your body is worth more. Without your health, how can you fight for freedom? All that fast food is LOADED with MSG, ASPARTAME, trans fats, GMOS. You know, they load that stuff with these toxins so you won't be able to think clearly. that is also why they put fluoride in the water, which is what the Nazis did to pacify the prisoners so they wouldn't revolt or rebel! Say, what is the no. 1 ingredient in PROZAC?
I think in Vietnam war
they used soy to make the men passive... ??? I heard that somewhere?? and soy is in alot of foods made now..
SCREW THAT!!
gimme my McRib!!!!
Collectivism is slavery.
Collectivism is slavery.
In Soviet America
McRib take bite out of YOU!!!
You're assuming too much about my eating habits, my friend
...the point was to laugh at the crap that comes out of the Hill Bitch's mouth and the effect such a proposal would have on the economy.
But, my friend, you are correct about the quality of the dollar menu food.
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I knew she would come out with something like that
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