Fast Food Strike Raging, $15 Minimum Wage Will Decimate Price of Big Mac

06 Sep, 2014 by Rachel Alexander

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Instead of moving up the food chain to better jobs as they leave their teenage years – by acquiring skills or a college education – the fast food workers currently on strike around the country are mostly fully grown adults, many in their 30s, who think the system needs to reward them for not attempting to better themselves like the rest of us. These underperforming adults are participating in a “Fight for 15” in major cities, getting arrested in the process.

According to IJ Review, increasing the minimum wage is going to destroy the whole purpose of fast food:

The Daily Signal…reports that when this [minimum wage increase] is applied to some of our favorite fast food items:

• A Big Mac meal increases from $5.69 to $7.82.
• Wendy’s Son of a Baconator combo increases from $6.49 to $8.92.
• Taco Bell’s 3 crunchy tacos combo increases from $4.59 to $6.31.
• A Whopper meal increases from $6.15 to $8.46.
• Subway’s turkey breast Footlong increases from $6.50 to $8.94.

Kind of takes away one of the main reasons people buy fast food in the first place, right?

In Seattle, where a $15 minimum wage increase was passed, and has already gone into effect at the Sea-Tac airport, many people have simply decided not to buy any food at the airport.  If the left wants to destroy cities, and turn them into the deserted, broken-down buildings that now exist in Detroit, this is the way to do it.