(January 31, 2014 at 5:15 pm)Chuck Wrote: If you take the take the job for $8, but it takes $10 to not starve to death or suffer some other generally agreed level of intolerability, then the government, in the interest of social stability, should make up a fix portion of the $2 difference to you out of general tax revenue, since the benefit of keeping you from agitating for the overthrow of established social order is diffuse and benefits everyone.
I would agree to this with the provision that the revenue comes from increased taxes on corporations and business owners, since they are the ones responsible for the depressed wages. It shouldn't be up to working people like us to subsidize an employer's desire to be cheap with their labor.
