This Minimum Wage Billboard Plastered in San Francisco is Driving Liberals Insane

"The greatest evils in our industrial system to-day are those which rise from the abuses of aggregated wealth; and our great problem is to overcome these evils and cut out these abuses. No one man can deal with this matter. It is the affair of the people as a whole. When aggregated wealth demands what is unfair, its immense power can be met only by the still greater power of the people as a whole, exerted in the only way it can be exerted, through the Government;..." Teddy Roosevelt 1910


The 2 words Democrats need to say over and over again is 'economic activity'. Give a rich person $1,000 and they will not put it back into the economy. Give the working poor $1,000 and they will put every single penny back into the economy.


"It is but equity...that they who feed, clothe and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labor as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed and lodged."-Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776

 

I'm not talking about states voting their pocket books, I said people, voters.

Bubba Isn’t Who You Think

Paul Krugman - New York Times Blog

Since I’ve just published an op-ed about the enduring influence of race on Southern voting, I’m sure to be accused of being a typical Northeastern snob talking about poor white trash who don’t know what’s good for them. So I thought I’d mention an important point about Southern white voting that didn’t fit in 800 words: namely, the poor whites are not the issue.

In fact, if you look at voting behavior, low-income whites in the South are not very different from low-income whites in the rest of the country. You can see this both in Larry Bartels’s “What’s the matter with What’s the Matter With Kansas?” (pdf), Figure 3, and in a comprehensive study of red state-blue state differences by Gelman et al (pdf). It’s relatively high-income Southern whites who are very, very Republican. Can I get away with saying that rich white trash are the problem? Probably not.

What this reflects, in turn, is the odd fact that income levels seem to matter much more for voting in the South. Contrary to what you may have read, the old-fashioned notion that rich people vote Republican, while poorer people vote Democratic, is as true as ever – in fact, more true than it was a generation ago. But in rich states like New Jersey or Connecticut, the relationship is weak; even the very well off tend to be only slightly more Republican than working-class voters. In the poorer South, however, the relationship is very strong indeed.

This is why it’s true both that rich voters tend to be Republican, and that rich states tend to be Democratic.

 

Back in 1979 we didn't have the Reagan "trickle down" revolution which was designed to make the richest richer.

If middle class working folks are already getting whacked because of foreign competition, it surely doesn't make sense to continue policies that increased their taxes and hurt their incomes and redistributed their income and wealth to the richest, does it?

 

That's because of the costly regulations and wages by the government. Were it not so, they would not have moved overseas, would they? As usual, Democrats create the problem, then blame conservatives when they find some way to encourage businesses to build here.

 

No. It does not.

You can hire a CPA down the street to prepare your financial statements or you can email your data to a CPA firm in India for a fraction of the cost. When small companies need or want to save a few thousand bucks that's a quick fix without digging too hard to find places to cut back. Good luck getting a job flipping burgers as a CPA.

The world is different than it was in 1776. Eventually we have to own up to it.

It might not be a bad policy to ban all education VISA's. We could stop arming our competition.

 

We don't have a problem with earning or income in this country.

We only have a problem with how it is being distributed.

 

I think higher taxes is a preferable method of redistribution than mandating companies to pay high wages.

Rich people can fire their employees to avoid the extra cost. Rich people are highly unlikely to reduce their income to avoid paying income taxes.

 

Just MORE right wing noise. Shocking. Better the US look and treat their workers more like China right? *shaking head*

 

"Costly regulation" by the government caused corporate profits skyrocket?

Do you guys even try to think before you barf up whatever RW propaganda talking point comes first to mind?

 

Why are you so obsessed with a coporations profits? They can make as much money as they wish. You simply want to steal their money.
I, on the other hand, wish to help the poor build their own empires by reducing regulations and taxes so they have the opportunity to succeed by their own merit and creativeness. This also builds dignity and self-worth. Your method destroys creativity, gratitude, dignity and ambition.