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Originally Posted by media
Exactly... They'll bump up into another bracket potentially..
Also another problem.. The cost of food will also now go up.. When they raised the minimum wage from $8.80 to $8.95 this year in Oregon the price of food went up all across the board.. Example.. one fast food Mexican restaurant raised their cost up $0.10 per burrito and explained that it was due to the cost of minimum wage going up on a flyer they posted on the counter.. BULLSHIT!!! your 5 employees working cost you an additional $0.75 per hour.. that's an extra $6.00 per 8 hour shift for all staff.. and you're raising your prices to the point that you'll probably make an extra $5-10 an hour or $40-80 per 8 hour shift.. this is just bullshit imo and pure greed.. and should not be allowed.. people need to be allowed to catch up not get pushed further behind..
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Yes. I live in Florida and we haven't recently had a minimum wage increase here yet the food prices are constantly increasing. That is one thing about Capitalism. Prices aren't set exclusively according to cost rather they are set according to what the market will bear or in other words what people are willing to pay. Sometimes things like this only give some businesses a great excuse to take advantage of the situation. When you have roughly half the population who will believe it (for political reasons) that only helps. It reminds me of how AVS was marketed in the early days. The official line was that we had to charge in order to verify that the surfer was an adult. Of course that was 90% bullshit. We wanted the money.
