FACT CHECK: Rep. Markwayne Mullin, “McDonalds hamburgers will cost $20!
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ThinkProgress reports:
When a constituent asked Rep. Markwayne
Mullin for his take on the push to raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour
at an Afton, Oklahoma town hall meeting last Thursday, Mullin responded
with a question of his own: “You guys wanna pay $20 for a hamburger at
McDonald’s?” [
more here]
Claim
Rep. Markwayne Mullin says that raising the minimum wage to $10 will make McDonald’s hamburgers cost $20.
Fact Check
With the current minimum wage of $7.25, McDonalds charges an average
of $4.56 for a Big Mac. Raising the minimum wage to $10 would be a 38%
increase. Using math, a 38% increase in the price of the burger would be
$6.29.
Verdict
![FACT CHECK Markwayne Mullin 20 dollar Big Macs](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_tT1ak8DPzDFvW_83sZyUfQr4sB63BGzUUrMHZF-b6LKNRniPttwqw9QtgnVA0vpAHPoDyUYNO5PO792U5XGLrzjE_G4VnbewR0V03ylKBNyOO9dKon8s8sFwvBhbZkN9crxpLUH8Hv0EF3zFVvWejHLnTMUg3EHHivAfYTDqQM1jHdPu4=s0-d)
So while Rep. Markwayne Mullin was off by $13.71 in his estimate, we rate his statement as
Close Enough,
because really $13.71 isn’t that much money when you consider that
someone making minimum wage can make that in a little over 2 hours.
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