GOP Economic Development - Low Wages, No Labor Regs, Few Benefits Encourage Business

[TheMastersNemesis]

Based on watching states like Wisconsin, Illinois and other conservative governed states you encourage business coming to your state if you keep wages low and regulations nonexistent. That way business will want to come to your state. And if you promise virtually NO taxes on these businesses or big tax incentives that cost more than they produce you will create an economic development nirvana.

In real terms employees actually are owned like slaves were. Employers should have total say on employees lives.

[Populist_Prole]

1. Exactly. It's a sugarcoated way to sell the race to the bottom

"Business friendly". Specious. Insidious.

"The economy" will look good on paper, in a civic booster sort of way. The people in it though, will not be doing so hot.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. The GOPers think that's true but it really isn't.

Minnesota, governed by Democrats, has higher taxes, a higher minimum wage and a more unionized workforce than Wisconsin but hasn't lost business on account of these factors. In fact, for example, one business recently moved part of its operation to Minnesota from Wisconsin expressly because it has an overall better business environment, offering more people with more money to spend and more people who can afford college (and therefore a better-educated workforce), and the skilled labor offered by unions. A lot of GOPers believe the myths offered up by the likes of Scott Wanker but states like Minnesota prove their falsity.

[Shandris]

3. And so long as a single, solitary place to flee to remains, that won't change.

And that won't end until currency does. So how much longer until people start to realize the source of the problem?