Except that Papa Johns isn't competing with mom and pop pizza shops anyway.
From the article I linked to earlier:
In a lot of lines of business, you basically have big companies competing with other big companies. But food service in general and pizza in particular aren't like that. Obviously Papa John's does compete with Dominoes and other large chains. But a huge share of the pizza market is held by non-chain operators. Some of them are offering a high-end product that Papa John's isn't really competitive with, but there's lots of middling-to-bad independent pizza out there in this fine country and its just as likely that the chains will expand by taking those places out as by competing with each other for market share. And now along comes ObamaCare to subsidize the competition. Not for any particular policy reason closely tailored to the goals of the law, but basically for the sake of a talking point—Democrats can say, accurately, that, far from burdening small businesses, the Affordable Care Act goes out of its way to help them.
I did a bit of googling and it seems that
65 percent of American pizzerias are independently owned. And, living in Brooklyn, I can personally attest to the fact that enough of them offer Panzer Pizza at Panzer Prices. So, yes, the chains
do compete with the Mom & Pop joints.
Anyway, why shouldn't better pizza command a higher price? Should a Lambo cost as much as a Honda? Or does that argument only apply to the big guys, and not to the small businesspeople who built this country. 'Cause if it does, that's not capitalism. That's Oligarchy. Ask Putin about that.
The local McDs is owned by a local franchisee, who hires local people. I don't know about Hut or John's, whether they're franchises or not.
They are. The majority of franchisees own multiple franchises, thus giving them too many employees to qualify.
To say there's no such thing as a "local" Mcds is just wrong.
By that logic, you're saying that
all business is local. You're trying to sound like Reagan, but it's coming out like
Tip O'Neill
Not saddling a kajillionaire with an unreasonable new tax isn't "rewarding" them.
Well, Barry, the majority of Americans think it’s reasonable. Otherwise, Ann Romney would be hiring architects to build a stable at the White House for her dressage horses.
It's all moot tho. We're going to get to see it in action. Should be interesting.
Smartest thing either of us has said in this thread.
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