Why is it the employer's responsibility to provide a living wage?
May 10, 2014 at 1:32 am
(This post was last modified: May 10, 2014 at 1:35 am by Rampant.A.I..)
(May 10, 2014 at 1:23 am)Heywood Wrote:(May 10, 2014 at 1:13 am)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: You're right, the state should be responsible for paying the employees of private companies?
Come to think of it: Why not just abolish private employment all together, and have the state employ everyone?
That should work out great, right?
Your point is irrelevant.
Employees do not work for free. Employers will have to pay them to attract them.
Your point that employers should not have to pay employees enough to live on, and that the taxpayer (read: other employees) should pay a portion of the wages of other private employees is nonsensically circular.
Where do you think state funds come from? The moon?
Tell you what: how about we just raise taxes on the employers, and hand that money back to the employees. That way, you're happy, and the employees can continue to work, and the rest of us don't have to pay more taxes so that employers can have subsidized cheap labor.
