Posted on 06/17/2024 10:47:53 AM PDT by nickcarraway
I am a conservative first, Trump supporter second. You are not a conservative because you prefer RINOs like Trump and Vance.
That is my biggest beef. They have zero authority to set wages and yet they set them and now you see they use it to get votes, and they don’t care if it destroys the economy
You decry Vance manipulating the market. Where is your stand against the cheap labor express implicit in our immigration policy which is devastaing the middle class while using printed money for attendant social services all paid for out of inflating prices astronomically.
I am all for free markets. Right now we are not even close.
I find myself saying that a lot these days. I honestly don’t GAD, since I understand you don’t win elections without pandering to voters who are borderline retarded.
What about you? Do you endorse people that have liberal, neocon, big Government, DEI policies just to have someone to endorse?
Trump is the best we have and he will pick the VP. I’m not rooting for many of the 7 the media is selecting for us and if Trump picks someone I am unimpressed with I may bellyache but then I will get behind the Trump team.
Vance, Rubio and Trump are all flawed men, as am I. But I will be thrilled to vote for any of them.
Hey JD. Guess what the minimum wage is? Zero.
Got no use now nor ever did for jd vance. Non-starter in my book. If he were a drill bit we’d call him still green and put him back in the box waiting for him to get more experience and gravitas.
With a central bank, and centrally-controlled, printed and fiat monetary system - any attempt to centrally-manage the minimum wage is absurd, and useless.
Our central bank by its very design creates inflation and declining real wages, while on the other hand, government attempts to “fix” it by also declaring higher wages by fiat
Its like an arsonist who sets a fire, and then tells you how you should put it out.
The min. wage is a political issue and not an economic one. Set it to $15.00/hr then tie increases to inflation. TAKE THIS DIVISIVE issue off the table. Republicans need to get out of the trash lowest wrung business.
Reason losertarians hyping Vance’s words to advocate for open borders.
Completed it for you.
If Vance needs a hook legalize all drug but he won’t do that with his background. Ohio doesn’t want to be CA. Poop in the lake, homelessness everywhere, terrible school. Vance no thank you.
Funny, does anyone else see the correlation between the lust for cheap labor, open borders and the constan lamentation of the minumum wage?
Let’s try MEI for a change. Merit , Excellence and Inteligence.
Just about every person in the human race wants to pay as little as possible for what they buy, and charge as much as possible for what they sell (and for most people, what they “sell” is their labor).
At least 95% of the government decisions that are made in a modern economy are aimed at shielding people from the reality of this intractable conflict.
People don’t want to face the limitations of the human condition. It’s much easier for them to live in a delusional state where it’s possible to have $40/hour wages, 3% unemployment, and Walmart prices for everything.
As usual you are mistaken. The free market economy works due to free market prices, and any government control over prices is poison, whether it is minimum wage, rent control, or wage and price controls. The end result of doing these economically poisonous things is another Venezuela.
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