Public policy is not like one big red button that you press and it only does one thing. It's multifaceted. How does raising the minimum wage prevent the government from investing in job training and affordable education? How does one hinder the other? You're way off base here if youre trying to characterize me as a Socialist... Ive said time and time again I believe in the freest possible markets. However to ignore externalities and the true costs of actions such as paying your workers 7.25 is corportism.
If u can afford a house on 7.25, why do the vast majority of MW earners get government assistance in food stamps and housing transfers WIC etc? Is it because theyre poor money managers compared to a smart money manager like yourself? Thats it I think. Those people are lazy and immoral. At least compared to you, since you make a lot more?
You keep projecting convenient arguments onto me because you can't counter what I'm actually saying.
Show me where I said the govt can only do one thing at a time (when I had a whole laundry list of things I wanted the govt to do). Show me where I said poor people are "poor money managers" or "lazy and immoral". Are you talking to me or some idea of what you think everyone who doesn't agree with you is?
How will raising MW get poor people out of easily automatable/outsourceable dead end jobs? How will raising MW make housing, job training, higher education or healthcare more affordable, when the people making the wages you want to raise it to can't afford those things? Can you point to what MW would actually fix without hiding behind emotional canards? Why do we have to address MW first when there are so many other bigger problems poor people face, that raising MW won't fix?
No, you are not a free marketeer. Labor is a market. The very presence of a price floor (MW) != free market. Note, I am not even against MW, nor am I even a free marketeer myself (I can't be if I am for MW and having the govt address all the problems with higher education, housing, etc). I agree that business has too much power at the moment, and I also agree that the govt should intervene in favor of workers. You on the other hand are trying to masquerade as a free marketeer to lend yourself an air of credibility and objectivity while you try and shove old school left wing redistributionism down everyone's throats. You can @ me and use all the smilies, shame tactics and logical fallacies you want... I'm not going for it. My questions are pretty simple, can you answer them?
You can own a home down here on that kind of income.
