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I just pulled myself up by the bootstraps.

There is more to the housing crisis in California than wages. One of the biggest obstacles is California has strict zoning laws against building multi-family homes. California is also highly desirable. The best weather in the country is in Southern California. It's basic economics. Supply and demand. Bumblescum Mississippi is cheap because no one wants to live there. California is a high income state. Not in the fact it pays higher wages, but it has industries such as the tech industry that have higher income jobs regardless of profession. California has more millionaires and billionaires than any other state. California also has strict building codes due to threats of earthquakes. Buildable land is also at a premium. California has lots of mountains, particularly along it's coasts, that makes building sprawling cities challenging. There's a lot of pieces to California's housing crisis but keep in mind California has more people than the entire country of Canada and only 4% the land area Canada has.

I don't own a lake home and I was able to afford Christmas presents.

I'll go out on a limb and say a good chunk of them weren't even from Michigan. I remember that Trump was leading in Michigan and they wanted to stop the count and simultaneously in Phoenix where Biden was leading they were demanding to count the vote which was literally what they were doing inside.

Yes she is. She voted against the voting rights legislation. She's has no problem with suppressing the vote as long as it is non violent.

Like I said based on purchasing a Big Mac. The gas prices in California have nothing to do with the wages since California has the highest gas tax in the country.

That's another good point. Property tax rates are higher in Texas but the cost of property is obviously higher in California.

The issue was that higher wages would lead to companies charging more for their goods. That is only true in a sense. Increase in wages outpaced the increase in the cost of goods that company provided, meaning McDonald's can raise the wages of workers. There's no reason that McDonald's can't raise the salary in Texas without increasing prices. There's more to the cost of gas in California than employee wages which is what this was about. New Hampshire pays McDonald's employees $15.01 and they don't have income tax and their gas prices are $3.23.

Of course it's state wide so certain markets will be higher and other markets will be lower. I'm sure there are areas in Texas that make more than $11.

Right but the higher wages in California, amongst McDonald's crew members, offsets that and a crew member would have more purchasing power. An employee in California making $14,86 an hour, minus the 2.2% effective tax rate would make $14.33 per hour vs $11.11 in Texas. A $5.11 Big Mac would be 36% of that person's take home hourly wage. A $4.39 Big Mac in Texas would be 39% of that person's take home wage. Even though your dollar goes farther in Texas, you still have more purchasing power in California in this example of McDonald's workers. It also shows that McDonald's can raise wages without raising prices equal to the pay increase. The conclusion is higher wages are better.

She's not a defector. She was an enabler who just didn't go as far as others in her party.

Since someone will bring up taxes, the salary would fall in the 4% bracket for California's state income tax. That would be roughly $700 in income taxes vs 0 in Texas. That would bring down the total California salary to $30,206 vs. $23,106. An increase of roughly 30% but the Big Mac only costs 14% more.

Average Big Mac costs $5.11 in California. The average cost in Texas is $4.39. That's a 14% increase. Average hourly rate of a crew worker in California is $14.86. In Texas it is $11.11. That is a 33% increase. While higher wages do raise the cost of goods, the entire wages increase isn't rolled into the price of goods. There's more. I know the retort will be well they work less hours. The average annual salary in California is $30,906 vs $23,106 in Texas. An increase of 33% so it doesn't appear hours are affected at all.

In ally in what? She voted for the enemy. She voted with the enemy 90% of the time. She voted against preserving voting rights.

A Big Mac is the same price in Los Angeles as Dallas. For shits and giggles I went on Doordash and a Big Mac value meal is $4 cheaper in California than Michigan. WTF.

I never mentioned California in my post but California is still part of the US with greedy corporations.

The workers should accept lower wages and lower standards of living so the CEOs don't have to take a pay cut. Maybe we could also give the CEOs a tax cut and see if that extra money trickles down.

That ought to save us. Illinois, whose losing two seats, managed to make sure the two seats being lost were Republican. Way to both sides this.

She voted for Trump in 2020 despite Trump making it known he would not accept the results of the election. She also voted against the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. She's just a less offensive Trumper.

Technically, Smollett's plan worked. I had no idea who he was prior to this.

Why is staples like a Big Mac cost more in the US than anywhere in the world and yet American McDonalds workers are paid less than most other developed countries?