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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Omega: [QB] Jay: "I disagree." *L* OK, WHY do you disagree? "And if there is still a profit, albeit a smaller one, in it the selling of burgers to Lower Schmoeville residents? Owner person just up and quits?" OK, let's see here. Say that a McDonalds has ten people working at any given time (just a nice, round number). These places are probably open eighteen hours a day. So that's $180 less profit per day, assuming a $1 per hour wage increase. That works out to $63,000 a year. Just for the sake of argument, let's say fifty thousand. Now, these places operate on budgets. Where's that money going to come from? There aren't going to be that many unbudgeted dollars. Hypothetical train of thought of a fast food franchise owner: "So I need fifty grand. Where am I going to get that out of the budget? Maybe we can forget getting that intercom that actually makes voices intelligable. We don't HAVE to pave the parking lot, do we? No, I guess we really do. Well, we could always fire a couple people. That'd make up for most of the losses. Oh, wait, we're running with a minimal staff as it is. I suppose I could raise prices, but then I'd do less business, and I'd be right back where I started. I could take it out of my own salary, but then I'd be better off selling the land to those people that want to build condos, and going back to whatever I was doing before. I'd be making less money here than I would be there." Under any circumstances, jobs are eliminated. This leads to more of that "economic stratification" you're so worried about. Two classes: those that have the well-paying part time jobs, and those that don't have a job at alll; instead of a larger, combined class of those that have a reasonable-paying part time job. Sol: "And George II has probably vaccumed enough blow to keep an entire Real World cast high for months." And again, your evidence being? And he's not George II, or George Jr. Funny thing, how the media keep calling him "Jr." when he's not a junior, and his opponent IS "Albert Arnold Gore, Jr." [/QB][/QUOTE]
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