Who would have thought?
Look no further than Europe to see the same franchises fully staffed, paying better wages and charging marginally different prices. America gonna do the American thing at first. They’ll get with the program eventually.
Look at Europe where the workers from all socioeconomic status pay their fair share of the Taxes.
I agree, the rich should pay their fair share of taxes!
They do. They pay more than their fair share of the taxes. It’s not time for everyone else to chip in and pay their fair share.
In Europe, those McDonald’s worker would be paying about half their income in taxes. They should do the same here.
Why should the poor pay half their paychecks to taxes while the rich pay less than 40%, if they actually pay any taxes at all rather than utilize tax loopholes to avoid paying.
Where do you get that non-sense? The article i cited refutes that.
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It’s been cited ad nauseam. Only an idiot would think the rich are not paying taxes.
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For someone ignorant of the topic, you seem to have a strong opinion.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/21/opinions/income-tax-wealthy-hodge/index.html
Surely, the rich pay a larger amount because they earn the most money, right? Not exactly. In 2020, the top 1% of taxpayers earned 22% of all adjusted gross income; their 42.3% share of the income taxes is nearly twice their share of the nation’s income. By contrast, the bottom 90% of taxpayers (about 142 million taxpayers) paid a combined $450 billion in income taxes, or just 26.3% of the total, their lowest percentage of the tax burden in decades. That means the top 1% of taxpayers pay a far greater share of the nation’s tax burden than 142 million of their neighbors combined.
The bread excemption meant the wage increase was only going to be ineffective or detrimental to workers. Companies that increase wages will cut staff or fold while the companies that made bread will continue to make bread.
The problem is that a wage increase requires a holistic approach that removes the incentive for the highest paid to make more money, caps on COL expenses, increased taxes on higher brackets that goes to 100%, and corporate taxes that can’t be loopholed to a fraction of nothing.
Increasing wages without taking actions to support that increase results in the increase of COL and inflation, negating the increase in wages; it is like wiping mid-shit.
California needs to focus on driving down their cost of living. I loved living there but everything was mind numbing expensive.
They won’t lower the cost of living because it is a direct result of their chosen economic policies.
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