Poll: Majority of Americans Want Government to Reduce Income Gap

Medusa said:

some people arent that lucky or talented in this life..they have the right to earn enough money to keep living whatever their job is.

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Yes. Everyone has the right to earn a living. Everyone does not, however, have the right to be paid to do whatever they want to do, or feel comfortable doing.

FederalRepublic said:

Yes. Everyone has the right to earn a living. Everyone does not, however, have the right to be paid to do whatever they want to do, or feel comfortable doing.

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it's amazing how people think everyone is entitled to a share of the pie, even people who don't do a damn thing to bake it. useless eaters are just that.

FederalRepublic said:

Yes. Everyone has the right to earn a living. Everyone does not, however, have the right to be paid to do whatever they want to do, or feel comfortable doing.

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Medusa said:

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You said:

Medusa said:

they have the right to earn enough money to keep living whatever their job is.

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If you mean something other than they should be paid a living wage no matter what their job is, then please explain. If that's what you mean, then you don't think people should have to earn anything. In order to earn something, you have to trade something of equal value for it. That's what earning is. If you do a job that no one wants to pay for, then you aren't earning anything because it has no value to your neighbors. There's a whole spectrum, from zero to infinity. You can't just put a floor on it and expect that to have no negative consequences. If you force people to pay more than something is worth, they will stop paying for it altogether.

KevinKohler said:

Because voluntarily paying more flies in the face of conventional wisdom concerning profitability.

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Kevin Kohler, income inequality does not concern me. My concern is regarding our nation's median wage.
Full employment is less meaningful if the wage scales are insufficient.
If CEO’s were not extremely well compensated, U.S. employees would continue to be insufficiently compensated.

I’m a proponent of a higher federal minimum wage rate annually monitored and pegged to the cost-price index number.

Additionally I advocate USA adopt specific specie of Import Certificate policy for our global trade. The economic consequences of our seeking “pure” free global trade are primarily borne by USA wage and salary earners.
Refer to Wikipedia’s article entitled “Import Certificates” and the discussion threads
And also to the paragraphs entitled “Trade balances’ affects upon their nation’s GDP” within the Wikipedia article entitled “Balance of trade“.

Refer to Wikipedia’s article entitled “Import Certificates” and the discussion threads
And also to the paragraphs entitled “Trade balances’ affects upon their nation’s GDP” within the Wikipedia article entitled “Balance of trade“.

These are the subjects of threads:
http://www.debatepolitics.com/econo...e-deficit-increase-gdp-and-median-wage-7.html

economics/95469-trade-deficits-alwa...e-deficit-increase-gdp-and-median-wage-7.html

Respectfully, Supposn

Paschendale said:

We've let government be used to widen the gap for so long, it's time for a change. Incredible benefits for a few wealthy people is what happens when you let government be sold the highest bidder.

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It is also what you get when income redistribution makes what you earn in wages rather academic. If one requires $X, in order to live comfortably, then they tend not to care what portion of $X comes from their paycheck and what portion of $X is added via income redistribution. It is far less expensive (more profitable?) to pay everyone a lower wage and to pay sufficient added taxes to support only the most needy among those workers than to give all of your workers a raise.

274ina said:

They do do things of higher value. YOU just need to STOP TAKING IT ALL.

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Shame on you. The notion that someone busting their ass for decades in a career is taking from you...is absurd. To then claim that it's OK to literally force them government to give to you...well that would be the very definition of UNETHICAL. Worse really, because those at the top aren't taking anything from you unless it's afford by taxation... You ignorantly believe someone make a lot is taking from you, which you consider bad. You then believe it's GOOD to use government to take from them. What a train wreck. How many people have you personally hand picked and trained,straight out of school, in a high value career and helped them grow to executive level income? If you had, you'd not be claiming that nonsense. You'd actually making helping shape the thing you "claim" to be so concerned about. And you'd know that this notion of others taking from you is about as absurd as they come. You'd likely also pity your former self who blamed others, instead of simply doing.

Medusa said:

some people arent that lucky or talented in this life..they have the right to earn enough money to keep living whatever their job is.

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Talent has next to nothing to do with income in a place like the U.S. Have you seen some of the redneck hicks that are rich off their ass in petroleum or hell, duck calls, or butt paste? Clueless! And the bulk of the income earners in the U.S. are not due to luck. Luck is a factor in everything, be it inheritance or an early grave, thus it's irrelevant. There are some disabled individuals, and some that are practically disabled due to parental abuse of one kind or another. These individuals need assistance. Those of otherwise sound mind and body, they simply need to work at earning more, if they intend to earn more. Earn enough to "live"? lol, are you aware of the rest of the world population and what they live on?