Posted on 07/23/2016 9:46:33 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Jail isn’t a bad place in the US. A charge of homelessness won’t get you sent to a max security unit so the threat of gang violence isn’t a worry. Free room, board, color tv, gym membership, arts and crafts, no late fees at the library, no passing of the collection plate during church services, free dental, free gender surgery, etc.
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Well, except for the savage man love...
At least, so far, the private sector can adjust its costs on margins the federal government cannot control, like higher qualifications or more capital-intensive methods of production and service delivery when the minimum wage rises. So far.
Beautifully stated.
The same thing is happening here in In my mid-size Southern college town. Many of the mid-level, full-service, privately owned restaurants are closing and we are left with either fast-food and fast-casual chains or high-end, white-table-cloth restaurants.
Shutting down small businesses is partnof the plan. Gotta makenpeople dependent on government so they have to vote Dem.
Probably worse than that. In the mid-90’s, I had a studio and paid my help $6 per hour with no bene’s. It actually cost me $10 per hour...then I found Freep!!!!
Shutting down small businesses is partnof the plan. Gotta makenpeople dependent on government so they have to vote Dem.
One cannot guarantee a return on investment if it is something the public may reject. And of course, too many people out of work equals no returns; the government cannot sustain the living of non-workers indefinitely. States still do fail.
Eh?
There is no such thing as a guaranteed income that can be “done right”. The right thing to do is to eschew socialism and all of its micromanaging regulations, so business and agriculture (the latter especially being the source of self-employment) can be free to flourish.
That’s the ideal.
However, N. American agriculture is being propped up by importation of cheap labour. As you know, that problem is so great in the USA, that it threatens your way of life — if not your sovereignty. Agribusiness continues to flourish, as a result of the “cheap-labour express”, while self-employment in agriculture continues to decline.
Ever-more-rapidly-increasing automation threatens millions of jobs in the service industries (among other things). Increasing the minimum wage, in order to achieve greater “equality” of income distribution, will just eliminate low-wage jobs that much faster. (I’m not a Luddite — I know that all past advances in automation have led directly to greater general prosperity — except for those who lose their jobs & cannot be retrained for newer hi-tech ones.)
Welfare, as we know it today, is anathema to the work ethic. More of that would be just making a bad situation worse.
A guarantee income would enable and encourage everyone to earn more by working. The minimum wages wouldn’t have to be raised, in the name of “equality” — actually, minimum-income laws would be unnecessary.
Sometimes there is no “best” solution — but, a guaranteed annual income would be a “less bad” solution than all the others.
What looks like is being imported is burdens on the welfare system rather than cheap labor.
A “guaranteed income” is a dole. That solves nothing, but exacerbates welfare problems. Other countries already do this, even if they do not admit it.
If you’re on the dole, you’re strongly discouraged from working — because most earned-income is clawed back, by reducing the dole. With a guaranteed annual income (or whatever name), every adult (i.e. no means testing) receives the same amount from the government. If you work, you take more home — less normal taxes.
End welfare as you know it. End minimum-wage laws. Simplify everything. Encourage working — don’t punish it. That’s what changing to a guaranteed annual income for everyone could do.
It’s not meant to be perfection — it would just be a lot better than the existing mess.
Most of the protesters were from “rent a mob” and were paid $8.00 an hour to be there.
“Where did the offer come from?
Can’t see any business succeeding there no matter what. Candidate for “affordable housing”?”
Condos, I was told.
Well, the new businesses will probably come along - just with automation.
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