neither is anything else - "fair" is subjective. you could say a formula was "fair", but you would be pulling it out of the sky.
actually price on the market has to do with the aggregate decision of all producers, sellers, and consumers. the price on the market represents what the people as a whole consider to be "fair".
if labor is not worth it's current wages, then that is the situation that isn't fair. if labor is worth more than it's current wages, then it can get those higher wages elsewhere, which is fair. if a business under pays it's employees, then its' competition will thus be able to destroy it as they will have all the quality people, and that, too, is fair.
workers have just as much a voice as the business already. mutually beneficial trade requires at least two actors.
our companies bail and go to places where they don't have to pay much of a wage at all
The average Chicago household now owes a staggering $63,525 to cover local government debt, according to Cook County Treasurer Maria Pappas.
Suburbanites are deeply in the red, too, with the average household owing $32,901, according to the treasurer.
Among the biggest reasons: $25 billion in unfunded pension liability.
In comments after an appearance Tuesday before The Civic Federation, a watchdog group that has released somewhat similar numbers in recent years, Ms. Pappas said she was "stunned" to learn that county taxpayers on the whole owe more than $108 billion toward local debt.
The figures were derived from a recently passed debt disclosure law. Ms. Pappas said the numbers have never before been compiled in this fashion.
"This goes well beyond big cities," she said. "These fiscal problems permeate townships, villages, school districts, park districts, fire protection districts and more, and the taxpayers are on the hook."
Overall, she said, municipalities have $61 billion in debt. And educational districts, $20 billion. Cook County owes $18 billion and various sanitary districts collectively owe $4.4 billion.
In some ways the problem is actually worse than it appears. Ms. Pappas' report does not include totals from 55 of the county's 553 local units of government, which failed to report their debt figures to her.
State lawmakers last year adopted changes that will reduce pension liabilities over time, but only for new employees. A bill that would reduce benefits or increase payments for current workers failed to pass in the spring legislative session but may come up this fall.
You and I disagree.The EPA meets that requirement FYI.
Did you already forget the "Walmart Shoppers are running out of money" thread?
Oh my god...ANOTHER one of these threads?
Here...
and here...
CAN WE ALL GO HOME NOW?
You and I disagree.
The Courts cannot make something that is not enumerated in the Constitution magically okay. We have an amendment process for changing it.Not everything the EPA does may be constitutional (I can't say for certain because I don't have all the info); however, its very existence was made necessary by the courts during the mid to late 1800s when they said some pollution is the cost of progress. Some sort of agency has to determine what some is, and it has to be a non-biased objective agency. The prince mechanism that capitalism usually rallies on cannot be used in this case because people can buy results.
And if the issue is pollution then why can some bureaucrat tell me how much water I can use when I flush my toilet?
Really, Do you actually believe someone in my town decided that the only toilet I can buy can use no more than 1.6 gallons per flush? And perhaps, just as a mysterious coincidence, so did every single other town in the USA? Awesome!Because water supplies during drought conditions fresh water runs low. But that's not the EPA, that's likely your local government.
Really, Do you actually believe someone in my town decided that the only toilet I can buy can use no more than 1.6 gallons per flush? And perhaps, just as a mysterious coincidence, so did every single other town in the USA? Awesome!
I thought you were talking about low flow toilets.
Our government at work. Saving us from ourselves...the National Energy Policy Act (H.R. 776) went into effect and mandated 1.6 toilets for the entire U.S.
I was. They are the only kind available now. And light bulbs are next. This is tyranny.
Our government at work. Saving us from ourselves...
Perhaps you are insane.I bet N Korea will let you use any kind of toilet you want:lamo
Perhaps you are insane.
I bet N Korea will let you use any kind of toilet you want:lamo
I was. They are the only kind available now. And light bulbs are next. This is tyranny.
Our government at work. Saving us from ourselves...
Conservative? Not likely.Thats one of your guys.
Conservative? Not likely.
Bush H? Goofy.Did you vote for him? Bush H that is? Then hes one of your guys
I was. They are the only kind available now. And light bulbs are next. This is tyranny.
There is one approach to tyranny that says bring the water to a boils slowly. Once people realize they have lost their freedoms it will be too late for them to do anything about it. Is that what you are recommending?So you are going to revolt over toilets?
we need to put more cash in education, that's the ticket for the future.