09-17-2015, 02:16 PM
(09-17-2015, 02:06 PM)Benton Wrote: Women's suffrage. Trust busting by Taft. Child labor laws.
All those were progressive policies. I'm interested to see how repressing women's rights, working children with no voice and a lack of competition by businesses are freedoms.
Personally, we could use a bit more of that these days. More competitive business field, clearer voting rules, student loan reform, campaign reform. All those are currently among considered progressive policies.
Well child labour laws hurt the family farmers. So it stripped the rights of those who wished to work in their family business.
as far as trust busting. For example: There is no competition for my internet service. I have 1 choice. Because Comcast and time warner have colluded to not compete in the same markets. The FCC doesn't do anything and almost let them merge. ATT and Verizon have also divided up the map for TV bundled service. They never compete. .... Basically the gov is limiting competition in these cases.
And women's rights is a weak choice. But what has developed has been a hiring quota. Which takes away opportunity to the most qualified candidate. Which ironically is what the argument for this policy. But by forcing women to be hired, admitted to univeristy you have taken away the opportunity of men who have paid their dies and were more qualified. Is it right that women were over looked . Ofc not. But it's equally not right how men have suffered to "correct" the first problem. Instead of letting women break through on their own merits.
