I Nearly Choked On My Coffee After This Fox News Host Suggested Workers Making $20/Hr Earn $100,000 A Year
Recently, Fox News host Jesse Watters received backlash after messing up some very basic math and insulting fast food workers in the process.
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While speaking with Patrick Bet-David on his PBD podcast, Watters and Bet-David discussed California raising its minimum wage to $20 an hour for fast food workers — a decision Watters called "so crazy."
After being asked his opinion, Watters poses: "If you're making $20 an hour to work at a fast-food restaurant, is that six figures?"
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He's quickly corrected by Bet-David, who says it's about "40K a year full-time." Which, ya know, is A LOT less than the $100,000 Watters initially thought.
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But that flub didn't stop Watters from pressing forward. He says, "OK $40K a year...and then if your husband or wife is also there, you're making $100,000 as a family — both working at McDonald's."
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Obviously, 40 + 40 does not equal 100. So Bet-David corrects him again: "80 grand."
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Even though Watters tried and failed twice at getting the numbers to fit his apparent $100,000 narrative, he still pressed on. "That's crazy," he said in response to a family of fast-food workers making $80,000 before taxes. "That is crazy because that job really doesn't require much."
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It's important to note:
Someone making $40,000 a year in California brings home about $32,000 after taxes, or about $2,666 a month. Meanwhile, according to Zillow, the state's median rent sits at $2,790 a month.
As you can imagine, people were not pleased after watching Watters's take. Some didn't like how he kept adjusting the situation to make the numbers work — even though they never did.
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Others couldn't fathom how out of touch someone has to be to think $20 an hour will earn someone six figures.
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And even more pointed out that the truth — that fast food workers provide a daily service that we all have likely used at some point and benefitted from...
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...while Watters — who is rumored to make around $5 million a year — spent this day speaking incorrect math to a camera.
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