@phranny said
Many of the super rich do not work. Their wealth is inherited and managed by others to produce more wealth for them which is either not taxed or taxed very minimally. Anyone working full time deserves a living wage. Perhaps minimum wage should be based on the state where one resides. The cost of living is higher in Alaska and Hawaii than it is in Mississippi. A reasonable min ...[text shortened]... t the Federal cost of entitlements to corporations that lobbyists have managed to buy from Congress.
I don't take issue with much of what you say, but notice that libs are always concerned with 'money that other people have'. Libs also have this idea of there being one big pie that has to be shared, divvied up, all fair, etc. But, there are many pies, and more being created every day. If Leon opens a Deli today, he starts his pie, he may share it, someone else will buy a piece of the biz from him. All this has nothing to do with other people, their money, or another pie. If super rich dont work, it is none of Leon's business. If he stews and whines about 'other people' that takes a lot of energy away from his own life and concerns.
I don't get what you mean when you say someone 'deserves' living wage. The definition of deserve is having a quality of worth or reward, or, to have earned something. Not something that someone, like an employer, owes to you. He pays you what you are worth, but there is nothing deserved such as a living wage from that employer. Your ideas, then, about how making more money has a positive effect, are true, but one cannot just say an employer MUST pay whatever a government says is a living wage. I wouldn't even open a deli if I saw that coming.Creepy.
I agree that employees can meet for coffee and agree to 'unionize', it is a free country. But at the moment, they are working for a guy who may only be able to 'take so much' of the foolishness that it brings, and just say he won't recognize them as a group. As to established businesses calling themselves labor unions trespassing on his property, he can just run them off, together with any employee aligned with them. Remember when you take these positions, that conservatives are REAL big on keeping government out of everyone's business, and you should be, too. Govt. should handle military, FDA, ATF, et al, specific agencies, but leave the running of our lives and our businesses, well, to us.