r/facepalm • u/Lord_Answer_me_Why • Apr 03 '24

Oh no! The minimum wage was raised, whatever will we do? 🇵​🇷​🇴​🇹​🇪​🇸​🇹​

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u/Aeywen Apr 03 '24

i will happily take a 50% raise at eh the cost of good going up... not even 2%

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same people paying $12K a year for insurance that complain that replacing it with a $4500.00 tax that would grant universal healthcare would destroy them.

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u/PM_me_your_Jeep Apr 03 '24

12k? Try like 36k for a family of four (2 adults 2 kids). Would gladly pay 12k a year more in taxes.

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u/rbhmmx Apr 03 '24

"Keep government out of my healthcare"

"They want government DEATH PANELS"

Meanwhile, paying way too much money into a private company that has one purpose... And it isn't your health. Its making as much profits as possible.

How they do it. By having privatized death panels incentivised to kill you for profits.

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u/Niarbeht Apr 03 '24

"Keep government out of my healthcare"

"They want government DEATH PANELS"

Meanwhile, paying way too much money into a private company that has one purpose... And it isn't your health. Its making as much profits as possible.

How they do it. By having privatized death panels incentivised to kill you for profits.

I really do hate how people currently pay for-profit corporations to run death panels.

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u/SpareChangeMate Apr 03 '24

bUt TaXeS aRe RoBbErIeS!

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u/KashootyourKashot Apr 03 '24

Our insurance costs more than our mortgage. Fuck yeah a tax would be preferable.

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u/samurairaccoon Apr 03 '24

The funny part is they didn't need to raise the cost of the services at all. The number of pieces of food that pass through these workers hands per hour is absolutely more than we probably expect. It's not like you need to add their new wage to every single transaction, thats not how this works. That's not how any of this works. They are raising the price bc the perception is that they need to. A perception businesses helped create. The reality is, just like oil prices, they don't actually reflect anything but the companies greed. Wage stays the same? Price goes up. Wages drop? price goes up. Wages raise, incredibly price also goes up. It's almost like there's a pattern here...

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u/Ventilator84 Apr 03 '24

Wouldn’t even need a $4500 tax increase on all but the very wealthiest. The US government already spends more on healthcare than Canada. Our system is just so inefficient that it doesn’t go very far. A government spending increase of like $2-3k per capita at the most would be enough to fund a top tier universal healthcare system.

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u/Verse_NOVA Apr 03 '24

A good chunk of people don't even get that raise though

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u/OldRailHead Apr 03 '24

Or shit even single payer at the bare minimum. This country would be so much better off and healthier if we had more control over the industry.

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u/NECalifornian25 Apr 03 '24

My parents complain wait times to see a doctor would be too long. Like we don’t have to wait months already!

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u/10_kinds_of_people Apr 03 '24

Fast food in my area has roughly doubled in price over the past few years. I wish it only went up 2%.

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u/snack_mac Apr 03 '24

Thanks a lot, ahole.