Wyatt earp
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1. Davis-Bacon is a minimum wage law that works. Your non-reply means you lose.a. The government mandates Davis-Bacon wage rates now for Federal jobs. The workers benefited, nothing bad happened, the budgets handle the wage rates. Its called planning, and budgeting. A better argument might be "without tariffs, how can US companies compete with the low overseas wage rates?" More jobs and factories would move overseas. You either hire workers, or you don'tHeads of households should have a "phased in" $15/hr minimum wage, phased in over 2 or 3 years. Bad idea.
Non-heads of households should have a $10 or $12 minimum wage, also phased in over 2 or 3 years. Makes your first bad idea even worse.
If any employees qualify for government assistance, it needs to be reported to the IRS. (the government should not be subsidizing any business) If the government gives benefits to an unskilled or low skilled worker, how is that a subsidy to the business?
The problem to be addressed is income inequality.
Why is that a problem? Why do you feel the government has the power or the ability to fix it?
If you look at the wealth distribution over time (chart below), the bottom 95% or so lose wealth and the top 5% or so gain wealth. IMHO the US needs a strong and healthy middle-class. If we devolve into the 1% of super-rich and the rest of us as peons, that society will fail.
a. You say min wages are a "bad idea" but don't say why. Job loses (1% -3%) are acceptable for non-heads of households.
b. Every job should provide a living wage, or we are peon drones, no worker should ever qualify for food stamps or welfare. (Even welfare recipients should work for their checks, like the WPA in the 1930s)
c. The Commerce Clause gives the government the power to regulate business. The government needs to work with business to prepare the work-force for productive work. I support free Community College with job training that lands good jobs, (like Germany). How will robotics and artificial intelligence affect the work-force?
Policies to reduce economic inequality
- Increase the minimum wage.
- Expand the Earned Income Tax Credit
- Build assets for working families, like affordable housing
- Invest in education, like free Community College and job training for real jobs (not worthless degrees with massive student loan debt)
- Make the tax code more progressive, raise the top tax rate, add a VAT if needed to balance budget
You say min wages are a "bad idea" but don't say why.
If you add $10/hour of value but the government mandates you receive $15/hour, will you ever get hired?
Every job should provide a living wage,
How large a home should the guy sweeping the floors be able to buy?
The 18 year old running the fry basket......what type of Corvette should he be able to afford?
The government needs to work with business to prepare the work-force for productive work.
Sure. By pricing the inexperienced out of that first job....wait, what?
I support free Community College with job training that lands good jobs, (like Germany).
Maybe the teachers can all be the people you priced out of private sector work?
b. How many more $billions do the top 1% need to feel human? In 1950 the average CEO pay was about 20x the average worker. Today that multiple is 361. Why are CEOs compensated so much more than their workers? Are they worth it? Not always.
CEO Pay Skyrockets To 361 Times That Of The Average Worker
c. Stop being stupid. Matching job skills, training, and even education with the jobs that are available or projected is better than what we have now. Free Community College would make workers more valuable by getting specific job training. That will help them land their first job more than a useless college degree (Art-History, Gender Studies, Fashion Design, Music, Communications, Liberal Arts, Fine Arts, etc.)
d. There may be a glut of useless teachers to deal with, maybe they'd need re-training to stay useful. Either way, they'd be well compensated.
The government mandates Davis-Bacon wage rates now for Federal jobs.
Yes, another horrible idea.
The workers benefited, nothing bad happened,
You're kidding, right?
In 1950 the average CEO pay was about 20x the average worker. Today that multiple is 361.
Wow! You love your fake statistics.
2. Nothing bad happened, workers got good pay for working. (not kidding, you lose again)
3. CEOs get 361x the average worker. Read the fucking link I provided. Here it is again, its not a fake article, you lose 3x. Thanks for playing.
CEO Pay Skyrockets To 361 Times That Of The Average Worker
And it means what exactly?
He going to get laid more than me?!