You lefties need to realize about 70% of all businesses have a profit margin between 2 and 3%, the highest profit margins (in mobile devices and pharmaceuticals) are 20-30%. Disney, Walmart and such are making 5-10%. You don't realize wages are a relatively insignificant cost, there are utilities, insurance, licensing, regulatory compliance, capital investment, it's amortization and depreciation, advertising, real property costs... I go to the liquor store for some smokes, the merchant tell me cash only if less than $10 -the fee he has to pay for a debit card transaction eats into his profit margin. If he's making 2% on $10 (what he wants for a pack of cigarettes), that's just 2 dimes. If I have to pay in cash, it must be because Visa is charging this merchant too much for him to profitably sell me smokes on my card. I don't know what credit card charges are, I know the merchant has a worker running the register, that the place is illuminated, I suppose he pays rent or property tax, I expect he's got some insurance, it's a liquor store so there must be some licensing fees and like any business he's got some taxes to pay, plus wages, there's maintenance, he's got refrigerators, has to pay some fee for an illuminated sign, I'm sure there's some cost for security (they've got cameras) and whatever worker healthcare costs.
To sensibly criticize a business owner for the wages he pays one ought to consider their role in the employer's costs. In a hospitality business like Disney's, which is primarily service-oriented, labor is more important, but it is far from the highest cost. Businesses compete, if their greatest cost (which I expect is regulatory compliance and insurance) were reduced, they could boost wages.
In this case it appears a reduction in taxes has improved the margin enough to offer millions of workers $1k bonuses.
