Bernie Sanders Rocks My World!

[Jaysyn]

I would pose the situation as being these people need to work to eat and further that there is no excuse for the working conditions many of these "third world" sweat shop laborers find themselves in. The fact that people lose the birthright of their dignity in order to have enough food to survive makes this current system socially evil.

I think there is actually a fairly easy fix for the problem of 3rd world sweatshops. Make it a Federal felony to sell to or import into the USA any product that was manufactured in those conditions. Give companies a one year grace period to change their behavior or supply line. Lean on our allies to pass the same kind of legislation. Alternatively, we could impose large tariffs on companies that use sweatshop labor. If it's no longer profitable the behavior will stop.

This would be completely Constitutional, falling squarely under the Commerce clause & the FTC.

Feel free to poke holes in my idea..

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Yeah. Fuck that son of a bitch making 900 USD monthly. A flat tax is fair. He pays the same percentage as someone making over 100,000 USD monthly. If the person making 100,000 USD is taxed even half a percentage point more it's unfair and wrong, and that uppity fucking poor man needs to be taught a lesson about fairness and equality. He's greedy and he is making other people suffer because he just wants enough money to pay his rent, keep his heat on, feed himself, and have transport to go to his job where he has the nerve to demand a minimum wage - for 12 hours of hard labor - from the person making 100,000 USD a month, his boss. The nerve of some fuckers.

You forgot your strawman tags.

BTW, did you not even read what I just typed? Under every Flat Tax proposal I've ever read about, someone making $900 a month ($10,800 annually) wouldn't pay a dime in taxes. Just like it is now.