Did you notice in that report that one of the reasons for the need to assist people working in the fast food industry is that those companies generally do not provide benefits and also only pay 30 hours a week?

Are you aware that Obamacare/ACA is causing employers in this industry to lay off employees, reduce hours to less than 30, and drop any benefits, if any were paid?

Would you not agree that the current financial condition of the industry is making things worse? If so, would you accept that part of the blame for this rests in the current administration's policies, especially ACA?

Also please note that the military has a greater rate of public assistance (food stamps and FSSA)than the general population. Maybe not as high as fast food employees, but still at an embarrassing rate. The administration has direct control of the military pay, and can fix this with a stroke of a pen, and would not have any opposition from any party if they did.

I agree that the employees in the fast food industry are poorly paid, but they are not unique. In my industry the starting salary is less than $20,000 a year, and the cost of training to become eligible for an interview is several hundreds of thousands of dollars, including a 4 year college degree. At least in the fast food industry you can walk in the door and get a job without any qualifications, and some in the industry actually do quite well. After all, everyone has to eat.

I think they are supportive of raising taxes on other people and corporations but not themselves.

I sell a 100% synthetic palm tree engine oil. It's good for 10,000 miles and is a renuable resource.

I had a chain of repair shops that marketed it to the general pubic, pricing it just $5 more than your basic oil change. They found that many people say they want to be greener and more environmentally conscience but when it came to costing them just a couple of dollars to do so they choose not to. They and I have discontinued carring this particular product.

They may say they are for higher taxes but not when it comes to their personal pocket book.