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09-25-2016, 10:29 AM | #111 (permalink) | |
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09-25-2016, 10:53 AM | #114 (permalink) |
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I'm not an economist by any stretch but it doesn't feel as though the forever expanding government and welfare state seems to be helping out the masses, and Libertarian's feel like the "opposite" would reap more rewards in the long run.
Government imposed wage increases (like the one Jill Stein is proposing) will, If anything, lead to more unemployment, closing businesses etc. You can't expect McDonalds to keep the same number of employers and also pay them $15 an hour. Her whole economic view seems to border on naivety. Also, being poor is often the fault of the individual. Why should we have a society that panders to poor people who aren't willing to put in the effort or make the right decisions in their life to become more prosperous? And the current system seems to encourage that lack of ambition and dependency on the state. Pure libertarianism is a lofty ideal that would be very hard to impose, but there's definitely a good basis for it working. Especially as we have seen almost all forms of left leaning economic policies fail to one extent or another. |
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09-25-2016, 11:05 AM | #116 (permalink) |
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If they wanted to they already would. But they don't, and I don't think it's a giant leap to predict that they wouldn't keep on as many members of staff if the $15 minimum wage was put in place.
And what's naive about understanding that a lot of people are poor due to their own life decisions?
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09-25-2016, 11:10 AM | #118 (permalink) |
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It's kind of like the increased taxes debate. It's not only a matter of raising the taxes of companies/entrepreneurs and funnelling that money back into the system, but what those companies do in reaction to it. Will they make that expansion, which will cost money and require workers? Will they decide to lay off staff to cover the uncreased taxes? These things aren't quite as simple as "Raise the minimum wage and everyone will be better off" or "Tax them more and we can put it back into the system".
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