There aren't enough rich people in the country -- we could take absolutely everything from the rich people, and it still wouldn't balance the books. Punishing the rich is not a solution.
Limiting the stupid spending is the only way to salvage anything. What Papa John's is doing is limiting the spending, by cutting his workforce -- and he's taking a balanced approach too because he's increasing revenue by raising prices. But that's not good enough for Liberals. Noooooooooooooo! They just want to raid his bank account. Just because.
Correct. LIBS think that businesses are there to provide employment. Reality check: businesses are there to make a profit and hire people to make it so. Tell a LIB that the 401K they have invested in required a corporation to make a profit and you will be met by a blank stare.They have no clue about where Corp’s get their money or where Gov’t gets their money, either.
Liberals also don’t understand economic value.
They don’t comprehend that some people’s work is, in fact, more valuable than that of others. They think that just because someone has some passing association with a total revenue stream means they have a more or less equal share thereof. They completely reject the notion that one person’s work may be worth orders of magnitude more than most others; the person making pizzas works just as hard and is worth just as much as the person organizing thousands of pizza makers.
I’ve observed a wide range of work and productivity. Those earning more digits in their paychecks do, on the whole, _earn_ it: it’s not some abuse of “luck of the draw” or borderline criminal activity, it is genuine generation of greater value. People who aspire to the mundane, people who who clock out at 5 (or, practically, before their shift ends), people who freak out over daily mishaps (and don’t act to prevent them), etc are not in a position to make consistently correct decisions/designs/deliverables affecting thousands of employees, millions of customers and billions of dollars. Those tasked with orders of magnitude more risk, and who can deliver at that scale, earn orders of magnitude more compensation. Can most people, with just 2 days’ notice, make an effective sales pitch involving ten million customers - and not suffer a mental breakdown? or make pricing decisions on the scale of a billion pizzas a year? or design a product line so well that market cap reaches half a trillion dollars? Would you trust most people to that job? How much do you pay someone who _can_ do that well - when others are willing to pay a lot more for that talent?
But no. Leftists think “Papa” John should cut his income - isn’t fair otherwise, you see...