RE: "They'll just raise prices if thy raise the minimum wage."
April 23, 2014 at 9:51 am
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2014 at 9:52 am by Brian37.)
(April 18, 2014 at 12:21 pm)Kitanetos Wrote:(April 16, 2014 at 9:47 pm)Heywood Wrote: They aren't concerned much with reality or facts.
The reality is that political reality as it is simply is not working for us. The only viable fix I can imagine is completely doing away with government.
That is just simply bat shit insane. All that will do is create a power vacuum to be filled with people with money and power to dictate to us.
You don't solve issues of greed and power by creating an environment where no rules would be used by the greedy to gain power.
There is no way around having a government. No government at all will simply allow those with the money to become bullies themselves.
I think it is a bit naive to assume people will do the right thing on their own without government. If they can rig government certainly they can do even worse to those without money if no government exists at all.
The key isn't no government vs nanny state. The key is to ban monopolies of power. Now right now we are not doing a good job of stopping a class monopoly. But the idea of no government at all is far more frightening to me.
Imagine what the Koch brothers would do to workers and poor if there were no government at all.
