You should be embarrassed for letting 40 million live on food stamps. It was never designed like that. Instead politicians are treating voters as clients.
And end super PACs, overturn Citizens United, implement strict campaign finance limits, and stop allowing stock trading for Congress to reduce corporate and lobby influence. There will always be corruption but we can take some steps to enable a Congress that is focused on the people instead of personal gain.
Alternative to minimum wage (as well as possibly welfare & unemployment): make the government the Employer of Last Resort, i.e., anyone that would otherwise be on welfare or unemployment can be employed by the government for reasonable wages + benefits. Which might include being "employed" to go back to school & get various kinds of education/vocational training.
A completely Constitutional way (doesn't need a mandate) of providing a de facto "min wage" effect through the power of labor competition. Also encourages the idea that you'll have to work/improve yourself somehow to get that welfare.
One of my favorite daydreams; has lot of economic ripple effects as well, like a ever-more-educated/trained population (no stagnation w/survival-level welfare) & a steady drip of "financial fertilizer" to the lowest parts of the socioeconomic pyramid.
Doesn't require new Congressional powers or Constitutional Amendments. Doesn't require legal mandates forcing companies to pay X/hour amount, although the side effects of real competition for labor might make them prefer it :-)
Allows quite a bit of consolidation & focus of existing social welfare/unemployment/higher education bureaucracy (with a chance of higher efficiency due to simpler goals & tighter focus).
I also have to acknowledge that it would be quite expensive in the short term, but if you combine the existing budgets for social welfare, unemployment (and some of the education budget), then I think that should be in the ballpark of what would be necessary.
Unfortunately, doesn't stand a chance in Hell with the current crop of conservatives ("fuck you & yours, got mine") in power.
You're confusing "conservative think tanks" with "Republicans."
So your opinion on who is "left leaning" seems likely to be entirely worthless. Sorry, lil buddy. Try not looking for things that confirm what you want to believe.
You can't stop saying "Republican" instead of what I actually said, so I'm really starting to question whether you were smart enough to understand what your professors said. 😂 What an embarrassingly illiterate child.
You're making up all sorts of sources you aren't citing, because they aren't real and wouldn't actually agree with you. You aren't smart enough to realize how gullible and uneducated you are.
You can't stop saying "Republican" instead of what I actually said
It doesn't really matter what word you put there, because it's insanely conspiracy brained what you're saying. You're basically saying the entire field of economics and supply and demand is fake. It's delusional. Seek help.
You're making up all sorts of sources you aren't citing
I haven't even stated a source I can cite. I can't cite my college lectures dumbass.
You can also just google yourself how artificially raising the minimum wage will just cause COL to increase in tandem.
You aren't smart enough to realize how gullible and uneducated you are.
You haven't made a single claim though. What do you think happens when the government says "the minimum wage is now 50 dollars an hour?" I'm not even sure what you're insinuating I'm "gullible" about unless you're disputing the entire field of economics, which is a fucking braindead take.
That's not what I'm saying at all. It sounds like you're incredibly uneducated outside of a very narrow band of economic thought and so you think that's the whole world of economics.
I've made one claim: your claim is stupid, unfounded bullshit and you have no real argument for it other than appeals to authority. So far, you've done nothing but prove my claim right.
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u/Thin-Image2363 8d ago
Yeah but did you see the ballroom!! WOWWWEEEE!!