Iceweasel
Diamond Member
As I mentioned to you before, state and federal regulations make it more tempting for a company to hire two part timers instead of one full timer. And minimum wage jobs are not designed to raise families with. It's a starter position for the young or semi-retired low level grunt work. People used to wait to make families or get two jobs. Walmart didn't create the system.I fail to understand why people are so deeply concerned about raising the minimum in wage when most people who work for minimum wage are employed by the most profitable companies in the USA - including MacDonalds and Walmart. These are companies which openly assist their workers in applying for government assistance programs to supplement their wages.
These are companies which pay their executives millions of dollars while helping their front line workers apt for food stamps. There is something very wrong with this. Especially considering these companies also operate very profitably in other countries with higher minim wages than the USA.
I don't think there should be cutbacks in programs which assist the poor but I do think that wages should be increased to the point that those who have full time jobs shouldn't need government assistance to get by.
Nor do you have any concept of how franchises work. The owner of your local McDs probably isn't rich and is only the CEO of his store(s). Taking more of his profit will mean price increases or layoffs or closures.
As far as the corporations, they are global like never before. Look at the foreign countries US franchises have invaded. By what measure would that not be more profitable?