Poodle, Sweetie, you just don't get how things work.
The cost of a burger is not all labor. Most of the cost is overhead, ingridients, utilities, etc. A 20% increase in the minimum wage would probably only mean a 2-3% increase in the cost of the food.
Further, all those other things are going up whether the minimum wage does or not.
Here's the thing. Back in the Clinton years, most of the "burger flipping" places were offering well above the minimum wage. They simply could not find people to fill those slots when unemployment was down to less than 4%.
This is about the 1%ers abusing their workers, and letting the rest of us pay for it.
Beacuse here's the thing about minimum wage workers. They don't obediently starve. They apply for section 8, food stamps and Medicaid... and they vote for Democrats.
God, you are stone cold stupid, aren't you?
[MENTION=31057]JoeB131[/MENTION], sweetie, it's painfully obvious why you're a high school drop out, minimum wage factory worker...
The rate for minimum wage has gone up about 20 times in my lifetime. And each time you people cry that it's not enough for a "living wage". Why? Because you're too ****'n stupid to figure out that when you raise the minimum wage, the cost of everything goes up to
cover the cost of that new minimum wage JoeB131.
The profound ignorance you people display is simply astounding. This is basic stuff that even 3rd graders understand. And you wonder why you can't hold a job and then blame business owners for it?!?