Not that I’m saying that the minimum wage should be $21.00, but paying employees such a low wage that even single “full time” workers still qualify for food assistance is just stupid.

If they paid more the employees would spend it and everyone would make more money in the end. McDonalds could theoretically double their employee wages and break even by increasing the price of a Big Mac by 68 cents. Of course they wouldn’t actually do either one.

Any wage increase (not 200%) would be offset by spreading the price increases out over the whole menu so that the individual changes were miniscule.