The ROOT CAUSE of our economic woes including business leaving our shores is the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (minimum wage, regulations, unions, and taxes) of businesses moving elsewhere. Federal government is the problem NOT the solution. Tariffs are MORE federal government and do NOTHING to attack the ROOT CAUSES of the loss of jobs in our country.
A tariff is a tax and China and Mexico don’t pay the tax, WE, THE AMERICAN CONSUMER PAY the tax in the form of forced higher prices. TARIFFS, LIKE INCOMES TAX AND INFLATION, DIRECTLY LOWER OUR STANDARD OF LIVING.
Fast food places are generally paying more than minimum wage.
That said, hard is it to understand...the person they hire at $9 in NOT the person they keep at $15 minimum.
They’re getting laid off.
Congratulations!
I love Trump, but don’t care for his tariffs. He said once that people that did things right (worked hard and saved their money) were being hurt because of low interest rates. He gets it, but when you purposefully make items cost more you’re hurting people as well. — Pretty sure the tariffs is why some of the union people want him in office, one thing I liked about Walker was he worked hard to break the union stranglehold.
If the automated restaurants catch on, the hapless public won’t mind because they can avoid paying large tips.
You’re right.
And MW also contributes to desperate small businesses (NOT large corps, people) attracting illegals by paying them on the sly.
The MW stimulates all this illegal alien (I don’t care what the gov calls them) invasion.
It is price-fixing. Just that the price has to be a minimum, instead of a maximum as fascists like for the price of things and services.
You are right.
There is a long history on taxes. The bottom line is that people and companies work singly and collectively to avoid them.
Adam Smith recommended a variety of low taxes to minimize economic disruption that proceeds from tax avoidance. Right now, I think our corporate income tax is too high and is leading to domestic job losses. Obamacare and social security also make the employment of Americans less attractive.
The problem is that government must still be funded. One part of the solution is for government to spend less. Reduce government mission, reduce government spending, reduce taxes in general. Privatize at every opportunity.
It seems there really is no point in thinking about this at the new FR; TRUMP is the answer.
If full time, which most are not. It should say $11,360 tax on every Full Time Equivalent.
Agreed - there is no such animal as a tax which does no harm. But since as you say inflation is a harm as well, some taxes are as necessary as government itself.SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others. — Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
Walt Disney understood, money must circulate.
“I’m not the richest duck because I just stuck my money away.”
Businesses in a Capitalistic Society are there to Provide a Good or Service in exchange for Monetary Compensation.
They are NOT in Business to Employ People, although Labor is required in differing degrees to meet Production Goals.
I live in SoCal, home of Carl’s. And their burgers are pretty good, as fast food joints go.
But their help is absolutely awful. Frowns, bad attitudes.
So if I could automate, in order to not encounter them, by all means bring it on.
I frequent a particular “El Pollo Loco” place. I know for sure, that ownership/management makes a huge difference.
The employees there, are courteous and cheerful, and I am pretty sure they get canned if they are not.