# In defense of Burger King **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [August 27, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-defense-of-burger-king/696651 "2014-08-27T17:06:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![PhillyGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed655f/32.png) [@PhillyGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PhillyGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-defense-of-burger-king/696651/41 "2014-08-31T01:31:04Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I’ll have to wait on that answer until I find out if they’re going to start offering poutine along with curly fries on the menu board. I can tell you that they are not. What I can’t tell from your post is how that is going to affect your opinion. If Americans were going to lose their jobs, I’d be against it, but, apparently, jobs are not moving: [http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/08/25/4308025/burger-king-in-talks-to-buy-tim.html](http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/08/25/4308025/burger-king-in-talks-to-buy-tim.html) I did notice, in the above link, that Burger King isn’t above using the threat of a move from one US state to another to extort money from the first state. Being legal doesn’t make this OK. Until we clean up our own internal [inter-state crony capitalism](http://www.city-journal.org/2014/eon0827ds.html), I don’t see focusing on Canada if it does something similar. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-defense-of-burger-king/696651/42 "2014-08-31T07:50:17Z")
> [@PhillyGuy](#): > > I can tell you that they are not. What I can’t tell from your post is how that is going to affect your opinion. Fuck 'em. If they want to be a Canadian company, they can damn well sell me some Canadian grub. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-defense-of-burger-king/696651/43 "2014-08-31T16:32:31Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > We have seen a resurgence of mercantilism, austerity, beggar thy neighbor, race to the bottom mentality that will ultimately fail for the same reasons they failed the first time. Hopefully with fewer torches and pitchforks… ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-defense-of-burger-king/696651/44 "2014-08-31T17:41:28Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Hopefully with fewer torches and pitchforks… I wouldn’t be so sure. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2014, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-defense-of-burger-king/696651/45 "2014-08-31T18:39:27Z")
> [@Damuri\_Ajashi](#): > > I wouldn’t be so sure. Well, I did say hope, not expect. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-defense-of-burger-king/696651/46 "2014-09-01T04:23:42Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Your position doesn’t seem to take into account that, in the US, businesses ARE citizens, since we count them as people. They aren’t and you don’t. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-defense-of-burger-king/696651.md?page=2)