RE: Why is it the employer's responsibility to provide a living wage?
May 10, 2014 at 1:55 am
(This post was last modified: May 10, 2014 at 2:06 am by Heywood.)
(May 10, 2014 at 1:32 am)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: 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.
I have been thinking about doing a thread on a negative income tax or guaranteed minimum income for some time now. The more I have thought about it...the more I like which is a big ideological turnaround for me.
(May 10, 2014 at 1:25 am)eyemixer Wrote: To clarify, do you feel anyone is responsible for providing a means of living?
In hunting gathering times, you either made your nut or you died. The state was invented to help individuals make their nut, not legislate someone else help individuals make their nut.
(May 10, 2014 at 1:41 am)Minimalist Wrote: Woodie - fine theist that he is - would like to see workers starve to death for the enrichment of their employers.
I never said this....this is you peddling hate again.
(May 10, 2014 at 1:43 am)whateverist Wrote: I'm going to go with .. because the rest of us shouldn't have to subsidize the workers of cheapskate business owners who expect us to make their business plan work.
Isn't this another way of saying your too cheap to help your fellow man so you want to mandate that employers pay a wage high enough so you don't have too?
People have moral/social obligations to other people. You want to shift that obligation away from people and onto corporations.
