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Yesterday when I went to McDonald's for my Sunday breakfast burritos, there were about 15 cars in the drive thru lane, so I went inside. All of the Plano/Allen/McKinney/Frisco McDonald's are owned by the O'Reilly family, and they are known as good employers that pay their staff well and treat them fairly. Their business model has been very successful.
There was a stack of flyers on the counter like the one I posted below. As you can see, anyone with a pulse and an alarm clock can be hired for a decent starting wage, and there are increased wages and generous benefits, including health insurance and wide ranging education opportunities, available to employees that prove their worth. I know that O'Reilly employees who show initiative are quickly advanced to more responsible positions, with corresponding wage and benefit increases.
Clearly the O'Reillys are not your average evil oppressive minimum wage employers. They provide employees with real benefits, and check all of the boxes with exposure to the working world, learning, decent pay, advancement on merit, healthcare, and education.
Yet passage of the $15 minimum wage law will destroy this structure. The law will increase their entry level hourly wage 40-60%. Because the ability for the O'Reillys to raise prices in the highly competitive fast food business is limited, they will be forced to expand the use of automated ordering kiosks already being tested in some stores, and eliminate counter help positions. Increased labor costs will result in the abandonment of educational assistance, including ESL classes for immigrants who have no other avenue to learn English, and subsidized health insurance.
Fewer employees will be hired, and they will not receive merit raises for hard work and initiative, because all employees will receive the new $15 minimum. The quality of employees will be reduced, service will suffer, and customers will go elsewhere. The business will be trapped in a downward spiral, and underperforming locations will close.
All of this will occur because the progressive left believes a higher minimum wage will benefit the employee. Instead, those employees will see fewer opportunities, stagnant wages, and the elimination of benefits like employee insurance.
The liberal left isn't going to stop here. They also intend to destroy our hard won energy independence, again making the US rely on unstable Middle Eastern governments for oil. They won't stop until the ridgelines and desert plains of the southwest are covered with wind turbines and solar farms. Blackouts will become common.
The education of American youth will move away from math and history, and devolve into America hating, suppression of free speech, and extreme identity politics.
There was a stack of flyers on the counter like the one I posted below. As you can see, anyone with a pulse and an alarm clock can be hired for a decent starting wage, and there are increased wages and generous benefits, including health insurance and wide ranging education opportunities, available to employees that prove their worth. I know that O'Reilly employees who show initiative are quickly advanced to more responsible positions, with corresponding wage and benefit increases.
Clearly the O'Reillys are not your average evil oppressive minimum wage employers. They provide employees with real benefits, and check all of the boxes with exposure to the working world, learning, decent pay, advancement on merit, healthcare, and education.
Yet passage of the $15 minimum wage law will destroy this structure. The law will increase their entry level hourly wage 40-60%. Because the ability for the O'Reillys to raise prices in the highly competitive fast food business is limited, they will be forced to expand the use of automated ordering kiosks already being tested in some stores, and eliminate counter help positions. Increased labor costs will result in the abandonment of educational assistance, including ESL classes for immigrants who have no other avenue to learn English, and subsidized health insurance.
Fewer employees will be hired, and they will not receive merit raises for hard work and initiative, because all employees will receive the new $15 minimum. The quality of employees will be reduced, service will suffer, and customers will go elsewhere. The business will be trapped in a downward spiral, and underperforming locations will close.
All of this will occur because the progressive left believes a higher minimum wage will benefit the employee. Instead, those employees will see fewer opportunities, stagnant wages, and the elimination of benefits like employee insurance.
The liberal left isn't going to stop here. They also intend to destroy our hard won energy independence, again making the US rely on unstable Middle Eastern governments for oil. They won't stop until the ridgelines and desert plains of the southwest are covered with wind turbines and solar farms. Blackouts will become common.
The education of American youth will move away from math and history, and devolve into America hating, suppression of free speech, and extreme identity politics.
