CEO raises minimum wage to $70000, takes $70000 wage himself until profits are met.

[RandyForRubio]

I do think that most executives are paid too much. But are we really going to cry about that when we as sports fan root for teams with guys that make $15 million a year to play basketball for our entertainment? That each team is going to have a cap limit of $100+ million a year soon? I mean, cmon.

We (our government) needs to find more ways to get these rich ******** to spend more money. Like during our little recession they allowed a lot more money to be written off to cover the amount that items decrease in value over their lifetime. This encouraged people to buy lots of equipment, cars, etc. That's an example of good governmental work.

 

[NAOS]

everyone = jazzfanz posters, I presume?

Oh wait, even that equation doesn't work.

Nice new account, whomever you are. That's the brave route to take into this foray.

 

[RandyForRubio]

You know what else would be awesome? Allowing more weight for semi-tractors if they can add more axels. Distributes the weight so we can haul more with equal or less damage to the roads. We already have a shortage of truck drivers in the U.S.

This would help out owners, the drivers themselves (more payload more money), lower freight costs, increase efficiency. Simple stuff that our ****ty government won't realize.

 

[Deleted member 848]

Curious. Why is income inequality something that should be addressed?

Nearly every metric of poor health for any nation is either heavily amplified, or most-correlated to income inequality. I can post studies if you wish-- but literally search "income inequality health" in google scholar and you'll have months-worth of papers to sift through.

Careful there. We're on the verge of someone bringing up the shock-journalism created and fueled widening wealth and income gap myth. Americans are getting poorer donchaknow?

Anytime a pundit brings up income inequality it is quickly dismissed via fear-mongering and "LETS DROP THE CLASS WARFARE STUFF OKAY!?"

Fair enough, lets just get to the heart of its definition. Youre taxing one group of people more than another in order to even out the playing field. I dont disagree with you here, i suppose to what degree is where it gets complicated. Anybody know how much taxation difference is optimal for society? Seems like a slippery slope.

Of course it's complicated-- but just because it's complicated, does it mean we give up altogether, and just settle for what is easiest? Umm, hell no. We pursue what is best, even if it takes the best minds to come up with the solution.

While middle class suck rarely and poor never?
I'm a pretty good dude and I do not mind sharing what I have .. I just don't want the government to take a lion share and inefficiently spend it as they best see fit. If I'm wrong, tough.

Poor inefficient sharing is better than no sharing. And there are literally examples of country after country after country AFTER country that take a 'lion's share' and distribute it with the efficiency that an American government could only dream of. Begs the question-- how?

Some people in every group suck-- my brother is on his way to being quite upper class; I have nothing against rich people. Saying that some suck is a complete fact. Also true of people in every socioeconomic stratum.

 

[Deleted member 848]

Oh and Roach, before you go on about how cool Norway is, our average household net-adjusted disposable income per capita is $7k/year more than Norway. I suppose paying $7k for 4 years is worth a lifetime of $7k more per year.

before you go on how cool the US is, let's check out their Child Poverty rate vs. all other developed nations in the world.

Yikes.

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

before you go on how cool the US is, let's check out their Child Poverty rate vs. all other developed nations in the world.

Yikes.

Kids need to grow up and get some damn jobs.

 

[Deleted member 848]

Kids need to grow up and get some damn jobs.

aka

**individualizes & depoliticizes social problem**

 

[Deleted member 848]

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From 20 seconds of searching.

 

[jimmy eat jazz]

Class-warfare is just a fear-mongering term. Any movements done to try and address income inequality are immediately considered "class warfare". Baffling.


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And yet, those prone to shouting "class warfare" every time somebody wants to engage in a discussion of income inequality stand by silently (and one presumes consenting to) public policies that blatantly favor the wealthy, weaken the social safety net for the poor, or stigmatize/demean the poor.

The recent laws in Kansas that dictate what the poor can do with welfare money, for example, demonstrate a cruel, dehumanizing caricature of the poor as a bunch of lazy, shiftless ner'do wells who routinely fritter public assistance away on luxury goods.

All this class warfare rhetoric only cuts one way, and it is done at the bidding of the law makers' real masters, and now with Citizen's United essentially putting the political process, and public policies, up for sale, it will only get worse.

 

[jimmy eat jazz]

Should we just eliminate an individual's right to make decisions? Or should we try to standardize free will too?

Oh yes, and that's exactly what he was proposing.

Holy strawman fallacy batman!

 

[Saint Cy of JFC]

aka

I was being facetious.

You need an American dictionary you damn Canuck?

 

[jimmy eat jazz]

Dala, you ever had a job? An actual paying job? Not an internship.

Have you? Whatever that job is, understanding nuance or actually trying to understand what someone is saying don't appear to be job qualifications.