'Taco Bell and our franchisees have already adapted to many minimum wage increases on a local level, and we are committed to maintaining our leadership in value on a national level,' Taco Bell said in a statement to PolitiFact. In those places, burrito prices haven’t skyrocketed. The company, part of the Yum! Brands family of restaurant chains, told us that it already does business in places where local laws set a higher wage than the $7.25-an-hour federal minimum. We did, however, hear back from Taco Bell. Soon after we sent our inquiries, Rachel’s tweet about Taco Bell disappeared from the platform. We reached out to Turning Point USA and a spokesperson for Charlie Kirk, the organization’s founder, about Rachel’s claim, and we got no response. So PolitiFact decided to put Rachel’s claim to the Truth-O-Meter. That seemed like a hefty price at any restaurant, let alone a fast-food chain like Taco Bell, which still has several $1 items on its value menu. 16 tweet.īusiness groups have long opposed sharply higher minimum wages on the grounds that they would hurt employment and raise consumer prices.

'If you want $15 minimum wage, don’t complain when your Taco Bell order costs $38 for a burrito,' said Jordan Rachel, a Turning Point USA contributor, in a Jan. The plan has stirred up online chatter about the impact of a proposed $15-an-hour federal rate, with one conservative commentator warning that it would send prices soaring. Herre's why: President Joe Biden’s proposal for a $1.9 trillion economic rescue package calls for more than doubling the federal minimum wage, which was last raised over a decade ago.

Jordan Rachel: Says a $15-per-hour minimum wage would raise the price of a Taco Bell burrito to $38.

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