08-13-2015, 08:32 PM
(08-13-2015, 08:19 PM)jakefromstatefarm Wrote: Either way, the point remains. If you're making a certain salary or hourly rate, I can't imagine that very many people anywhere in the vicinity of $15 currently would be happy to remain the same if that were to take place.
If every business pays a person what he is worth instead of what he thinks he is worth the market will balance out. Set a baseline and go from there.
(08-13-2015, 08:19 PM)jakefromstatefarm Wrote: so once again it would be another failed liberal plan that will ultimately hurt the middle and lower classes,
Actually the liberal ideas are what have saved the middle classes. Before we had government regulation we had the wealthy barons of the industrial revolution amassing huge fortunes while the lower and middle classes struggled. We had children working in factories for pennies a day. We had coal minors working in poison air, and factory workers getting torn up in dangerous machinery.
And we are headed in that direction again. Over the last three decades the rich have gotten much richer while the middle and lower class wages have stagnated. And while our government gives millions of dollars of subsidies to corporate farmers, and spends millions to bail out financial institutions, and give millions of dollars of military aid to foreign countries just to protect corporate overseas interests there are still people who think it is insane to give money to poor children who don't have anything to eat.
