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Re: SOTU Address:
When you artificially keep wages flat despite the rise in inflation, you force more people into poverty thereby forcing more people to live off the very entitlement programs you rally against.
You can't have it both ways. You either pay people a living wage or you tax those who can afford to pay more to pay for those social program the poor will flock towards in order to survive. Pick your poison...
Higher salaries so that the employee can be self-sustaining or higher taxes that go towards more government spending. You choose.
Nonsense. When you continually mandate wage above its level of earned productivity, you make it non-competitive for the employer, and you benefit those elsewhere with lower labor costs. That is not an opinion, it is a dynamic fact.
The stupid is with the low-information Obamabots and liberals, who are blind to tomorrow.
When you artificially keep wages flat despite the rise in inflation, you force more people into poverty thereby forcing more people to live off the very entitlement programs you rally against.
You can't have it both ways. You either pay people a living wage or you tax those who can afford to pay more to pay for those social program the poor will flock towards in order to survive. Pick your poison...
Higher salaries so that the employee can be self-sustaining or higher taxes that go towards more government spending. You choose.