Did Reagan kill small business?

[One Brow]

Disagree (which doesn't happen often).

The safety net is exactly what is perpetuating this problem.

Perhaps it's that the safety net is partial? In countries where it's fuller, you low-wage workers don't suffer like they do here.

 

[franklin]

Perhaps it's that the safety net is partial? In countries where it's fuller, you low-wage workers don't suffer like they do here.

And since we have to take care of them anyway...

The issue I have with raising the safety net is it effectively subsidizes Walmart type wages. The higher you raise the safety net the lower wages people with no options can afford to work for. The market will adjust accordingly.

The better route IMO is reversing the long decline in organized labor law and empower labor to unite and fight. Walmart workers is all it would take for every other retailer to fall in line or lose good workers.

 

[One Brow]

Obamacare will kill small businesses just as fast as any republican policies.

What's "small"? Business with less than 50 employees are not affected at all.

One part of Obamacare is a 2.5% medical device tax. This is a tax on REVENUE, not profit. So, if you own a medical device lab, and your profit margin is 5%, you just got a 50% tax.

Or, you pass the 2.5% increase on to the customer.

 

[One Brow]

Can't a lot of the blame, especially for teachers, be blamed on the unions? They are supposed to represent the teachers. Yet, the union leaders are getting paid a lot more than 30K, but the teachers aren't.

Again, it's not the right's fault that the union leaders sold out the teachers.

Past of the deregulation process was the slow, systemic neutering of the unions. My college has an adjunct union I belong to, and what some of it's leaders do takes skills and connections most teachers don't have.

 

[green]

Your average administrator makes under 100k in alpine school district. Your true colors are showing here. Don't take the superintendents salary and pass it as "your avg administrator."

Besides, your "avg" high school has 3-4 administrators. Elementary and middle have fewer. Let's pass them all 100k. At most, you'd hire maybe 2 more teachers at that school with money that you would "cut" from the administrators. These are all the same lame *** anti-education arguments I've heard all my career.

Next, we will talk about accountability, how teachers "only" work 9 months per year (haha ummm no), etc. been there heard that.

I got my numbers from this site:

https://www.utahsright.com/salaries.php?city=alpine_schools&query=

 

[green]

I read it and it didn't make any sense. Sorry.

Doctors only earning 40k per year? Lol ummmm no.

Oh God. How stupid are you? Please, please show me where I said Dr's make 40K per year. PLEASE.

 

[One Brow]

I believe that unions and employers should work it out amongst themselves.(this would more often than not be to the benefit of the worker)

As long as this working it out means the union is allowed to take steps to prevent non-union workers from replacing them, it benefits the worker. There was a lot of violence back in the day when unions and companies worked things out fro themselves.

 

[green]

Beggar thy neighbor is great policy if you like great depressions.

I don't understand. Could you elaborate?

 

[♪alt13]

Perhaps it's that the safety net is partial? In countries where it's fuller, you low-wage workers don't suffer like they do here.

Which countries are you talking about? Mexico? China? Jamaica? Vietnam?

 

[green]

And since we have to take care of them anyway...

The issue I have with raising the safety net is it effectively subsidizes Walmart type wages. The higher you raise the safety net the lower wages people with no options can afford to work for. The market will adjust accordingly.

The better route IMO is reversing the long decline in organized labor law and empower labor to unite and fight. Walmart workers is all it would take for every other retailer to fall in line or lose good workers.

I agree with this.

 

[green]

What's "small"? Business with less than 50 employees are not affected at all.



Or, you pass the 2.5% increase on to the customer.

The 2.5% tax is NOT for only businesses with over 50 employees.

Yes, the lab can pass the cost onto me. But this is where I get screwed. My prices are set for me by the insurance companies. I CAN'T just pass the price along. So, I take a 5% hit on my bottom line, and my profits are 20%, so I lose 25% of my income because of this. If I "pass" the costs along to my customer, then that is insurance fraud and I end up in jail. Besides, wasn't the whole point of Obamacare to DECREASE costs, not INCREASE them?

 

[green]

Past of the deregulation process was the slow, systemic neutering of the unions. My college has an adjunct union I belong to, and what some of it's leaders do takes skills and connections most teachers don't have.

I agree with this.