welfare vs wages

[Danzig]

and then there's this:

McDonald's leaves taxpayers responsible for $1.2 billion annually (on a national scale) with YUM! Brands (KFC, Taco Bell, etc.) costing taxpayers $648 million annually. Even more staggering, the McDonald's corporation raked in $5.46 billion last year in profits with an extra $5.5 billion in dividends and stock buyback; they also pay their CEO Donald Thompson $13.7 million per year.


so, with the dividend portion, their profit was 11 billion?! in one year.

poor mcdonalds, they just can't afford to pay their employees more. i bet if they ran one less commercial a day, they could scrape up some extra cash.