The article’s author is a leftist. I guess this leftist wants a McDonald’s burger flipper to get $15/hour, which would help workers like a rivit gun would help patch the hole in the Titanic’s hull AFTER the hull split.
We need to return jobs back from Mexico, China and other places. We need to have a favorable tax policy so manufacturers will build factories.
Yes. And this is the Left's solution to unemployment - BIG government dicates:
"..........We could break up the work the economy already provides into smaller chunks that can be distributed to more workers, through things like national paid leave mandates, paid vacation, strengthened overtime laws, and a shortened work week........Full employment should really be the top line goal, and it's what the first four of those five policy options aim at. (With an expanded social safety net and stronger unions also acting as a backstop for wages when full employment isn't reached.)...."
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The Left is enraged by what Scott Walker did in Wisconsin and they are about apoplectic that he has effectively appealed to American workers (fighting and winning).
Why stop at $15? If that’s such a great idea, then wouldn’t $1000/hour be an even better idea? What makes $15 a magic number?
I’d like to see these people explain and defend their crackpot ideas with some sound reasoning. They never will because they can’t.
(P.S. The reason $15 was chosen is because it’s enough of a raise that they can get burger flippers excited and riled up about it. That’s all. There is no sound economic reason, only an emotional reason designed to get people agitated.)