wildbourgman wrote:Sixstrings, I never said it was simply a job killer (which it is) I'm saying that our companies don't have the wiggle room right now. This isn't the Kennedy years, these companies of today as well as our government has a dependency to unlimited growth the margins won't allow what your asking for.
In order to get what you are talking about would we would have to have a much better economic outlook. In my view we have some real pain coming and more regulation won't help that endeavor.
Cog wrote:Instead of feeding the bloated federal government, we should be starving it into submission.
frankthetank wrote:Just let the roads crumble. Sooner or later, a day comes when there won't be the materials, money, energy to maintain the massive amts of roads in this country. In my city they want to build a road right through the marsh...although the roads we have are in piss poor condition. Madness.
The rich will move by helicopter or MRAP from their compounds to their airstrips/yachts.
wildbourgman wrote:Sixstring's, first of all $15 is an arbitrary feel good number. Wage's are dictated by productivity of the worker, the labor market and the proposed jobs profit potential. No government fiat can change the fact that the real minimum wage is always zero in a free society. In countries that still have slave labor I guess you could go into a negative minimum wage territory.
I'm not for an arbitrary minimum wage at all, but since we have one it should always be less than prevailing wage in order not to have regulation price labor out of the market. Another idea would be to have the minimum wage tie directly to inflation but two things would have to happen. First workers and employers would have to be willing to adjust wages periodically which would suck if your getting paid less this month because of deflation results. Also the same folks in government that want the minimum wages to increase are the ones that hate to admit it when we have inflation due to their currency manipulation.
That would force walmart to pay their workers just enough so they wouldn't qualify for foodstamps and medicaid -- thereofre saving the GOVERNMENT, taxpayers, money.
Cog wrote:Why do social engineers feel compelled to restrain their citizens from purchasing that which they can afford to purchase?
C8 wrote:With tons of unskilled, illiterate immigrants coming to the US daily a $15 min wage is very reckless
1. these workers aren't worth $15/hr in terms of what extra value they can produce- so companies automate
2. massive unemployment and welfare costs rise as a result
3. a sub-min wage black market results which brings in organized crime
the reality is that, given current US immigration policy (anybody can come in whatever numbers they choose), the min wag should actually be going down to absorb the new influx of low value workers
we are breeding a mass of idle people primed for violence and revolution
frankthetank wrote:Just let the roads crumble. Sooner or later, a day comes when there won't be the materials, money, energy to maintain the massive amts of roads in this country. In my city they want to build a road right through the marsh...although the roads we have are in piss poor condition. Madness.
The rich will move by helicopter or MRAP from their compounds to their airstrips/yachts.
Cog wrote:Why do social engineers feel compelled to restrain their citizens from purchasing that which they can afford to purchase? Is it some inner urge to play mommy?
Subjectivist wrote:So basically this was all a noise and light show signifying no serious effort to accomplish anything.
Newfie wrote:Cog wrote:Why do social engineers feel compelled to restrain their citizens from purchasing that which they can afford to purchase? Is it some inner urge to play mommy?
Did you let your children eat all their Hallowene candy in one sitting? It's kind of like that.
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