Is the none ridiculous version of that question whether the government should encourage employement? Do you need me to give any more obvious answers to easy questions? Should the government discourage homelessness? Promote education? The answer to all of these is obviously yes.
As long as we are asking obvious questions should not the government do what it can to stop the flow of illegals into the country where they must either break the law by getting a job or just throw themselves on the government to take complete care of them?
Shutting down employers that don't meet government regulations isn't akin to shutting down the economy. Let's not let hyperbole confuse sound reason.
Shutting down the coal industry during a deep depression was one of the most moronic things a president could have ever done. Putting unrealistic non-competitive mandated heavy burdens on businesses, causing them to fail by the thousands will also hurt the economy.
One, raising the minimum wage hasn't resulted in less employment. We have been raising the minimum wage for decades and yet as conservatives love to point out we have record levels of employment and job growth. Two, the proposal is 15 per hour minimum wage, not 30 or 100, either you're ignorant of the subject you're arguing or you think hysteria serves your argument, it doesn't. Three, an economy where full time employees can't maintain the most basic of standards for living is an economy that is already broken.
You say raising the minimum wage is designed to help poor workers, but you fail to incorporate the serious negative effects that raising minimum wages without competitive forces driving that wage hikes will have on the overall economy. Employers struggling to remain viable under government mandated cost hikes will have to raise their prices. When prices go up so does the standard of living, thus negating the supposed benefits of hoped for increases in the wage/cost of living ratios. Businesses will also be forced to cut back on hours, thus negating the benefits hoped to be gained by a wage increase.
Passing government wage rates on businesses will have the overall effect of slowing the economy and driving up the cost of living.
I think you're confused. Hard labor is usually done by poor, unskilled workers. When people talk about hard labor the usually aren't referring to the work of C.E.O.'s and millionaires. As for a cap I would have no cap. I'd take AOC's Green New Deal, give it steroids and create high speed rail from the U.S. to south America so workers could commute from home to work easily and to bolster trade and economic opportunity between us and our biggest trade partners.
Send California your proposal as to how they can revive their dream of high speed rails without bankrupting their already teetering economy.
Sure, if your purpose is to get me to think you're irrational.
You say if my mission is to get you to think then I am doomed to fail?
Isn't the purpose of government to care for the general welfare of the people? I remember reading that somewhere. If that's not it's purpose what is? How much should be expended? As much as it's necessary to foster a society that is healthy, educated and secure.
Contrary to small-brained, big-hearted democrats, the mission of the US government is not to tax the daylights out of American citizens in order to take care of tens of millions of non-citizens who cannot work here for themselves.
Asked and answered. Change the laws so they can work legally.
Haiti, Cuba, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Java, and the rest of the world, send me your unemployed, send me your diseased, send me your lazy, send me your irresponsible, send my your lawless, and anyone else wishing for a better life, because we American democrats are determined to make the American taxpayers take care of you.
