Personally what we should do to help wages is top the maximum an executive can be paid in salary (he still can recieve bonuses), install a price freeze for one year allowing goods to increase only by the rate of inflation now and raise minimum wage to $10 an hour.
Offer companies that this would hurt tax breaks and incentives to maintain a frozen price.
Even IF prices then skyrocket after that 1 year the workers have made and hopefully saved enough to be ready.
What I see happening by doing this is people will be out spending money and the economy would be strong as everyone buys more because they are more comfortable.
Sounds radical and there are spots I'm sure a true economist could work on but this would be doable, IF the companies worked with government to make sure people got fairly paid.
Right now and since Reagan the pay between the top management and the workers has never been worse. Not to sound like a baby, because in life a lot is unfair, but treating workers like this is truly evil. Is it any wonder people are so angry?
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
Last edited by pan6467; 06-22-2004 at 08:01 AM..
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