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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWouldn't a lot of the 47% be paying taxes if they were paid competitive wages?
And wouldn't another chunk of the 47% not be part of the 47% if their only choices were to fight each other to get and keep minimum wage or nearly minimum wage jobs?
Weird, right? Because last I checked it wasn't Obama, liberals, or the unemployed supporting this. It was the Republicans and the Tea Party.
librechik
(30,676 posts)liberal N proud
(60,339 posts)And the economy would be screaming along!
Bonhomme Richard
(9,000 posts)patrice
(47,992 posts)peg it to the cost of living index.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d112:8:./temp/~bdQ8h3::|/home/LegislativeData.php|
Freddie
(9,273 posts)So Mitt & his cohorts close factories and send the jobs to China, the jobs left for the unemployed are at Walmart or similar, paying $8/hr with no benefits. So the person has to take a second job (if he can find one) and sacrifice his health, car repairs, kids' college, maybe even having to move in with relatives. Maybe food stamps and Medicaid. And working harder than ever.
And the Repugs have the FUCKING BALLS to call people in that situation "lazy" and "will never take personal responsibility for their life." And to call Obama the "food stamp president" when their huge corporations refuse to pay a living wage and their party has managed to gut the unions.
julian09
(1,435 posts)Some CEOS make 250 to 500 times what a single worker earns. Most are public companies owned by stock holders, not ceo.
The board of directors, planted by ceo, make decision on his compensation, share holders are screwed too.
Large institutional share holders render the regular share holder impotent.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)Are they those receiving money from the government or those that are not paying income taxes? They are not the same.
SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)Raising wages would increase income tax revenues substantially.
hughee99
(16,113 posts)the problem is, the whole "competition" has been rigged. People are competing for shit wages.