Minimum Wage

[hatidua]

Wait until uncle barry lets in all the illegals.

-they're already here.

[Zundfolge]

Colorado has some of the most ridiculous tax ballot initiatives every election cycle.

This is actually the result of a real good thing called TABOR (TAxpayer Bill Of Rights) that forces the government to put all tax increases to a popular vote (it also required them to refund any budget surplus back to the people, but they've found ways to steal that back ... they've also found ways around the requirement to get permission to raise taxes by calling some taxes "fees").

[Marlin]

-they're already here.

Naw, the four that aren't here yet.

[kawiracer14]

This is actually the result of a real good thing called TABOR (TAxpayer Bill Of Rights) that forces the government to put all tax increases to a popular vote (it also required them to refund any budget surplus back to the people, but they've found ways to steal that back ... they've also found ways around the requirement to get permission to raise taxes by calling some taxes "fees").

I've learned far too much about TABOR working in healthcare... TABOR is a good idea overall but it makes me fill a No in many extra times on a ballot

[Zundfolge]

TABOR is frankly the only thing keeping Colorado from becoming East California.

[Jeffrey Lebowski]

I've learned far too much about TABOR working in healthcare... TABOR is a good idea overall but it makes me fill a No in many extra times on a ballot

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[Post Toastie]

they've also found ways around the requirement to get permission to raise taxes by calling some taxes "fees").

I call this "getting Rittered"

[Justin]

Let's assume the average fast food employee works 20 hours a week and 50 weeks per year.

At a $15/hr wage that's $15,000/yr, or $7,780 more per employee per year.

According to Wikipedia, food service employs about 4.1 million people in food prep and service.

Let's assume they all get raises to $15/hr, from a minimum wage of $7.78/hr.

This works out to the restaurant industry having to shell out an additional ~$31.9 BILLION/YR!

That kind of money will buy you a lot of time and expertise from automation experts who will gladly write programs and develop robotics capable of doing the menial tasks now done by the average worker, and at a long-run cost savings.

There's already precedent for this in the retail world with the advent of automated check out systems, and I would argue the only thing keeping fast food from doing the same are development costs and tradition.

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[DocMedic]

Let's assume the average fast food employee works 20 hours a week and 50 weeks per year.

At a $15/hr wage that's $15,000/yr, or $7,780 more per employee per year.

According to Wikipedia, food service employs about 4.1 million people in food prep and service.

Let's assume they all get raises to $15/hr, from a minimum wage of $7.78/hr.

This works out to the restaurant industry having to shell out an additional ~$31.9 BILLION/YR!

That kind of money will buy you a lot of time and expertise from automation experts who will gladly write programs and develop robotics capable of doing the menial tasks now done by the average worker, and at a long-run cost savings.

There's already precedent for this in the retail world with the advent of automated check out systems, and I would argue the only thing keeping fast food from doing the same are development costs and tradition.

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I remember when I lived in Hawaii in Waikiki MCdonalds had a Automatic drive through Machine it was quite the hit despite all the jargon that it would take "jobs"

[RblDiver]

I'd love to see things like this come to the US:


Not only does it make food, it entertains you afterwards too!