This Is Scott Walker's Idea Of A Living Wage

I don't agree with the tax code but it is supposed to be progressive by design. People do not pay a share, they pay a percentage, and most of the middle class pay a much higher percentage than the rich/elites, who "ARE" supposed to pay more as designed. Unfortunately the tax code is written for them and loopholes and 73,954 of psycho babble pages just to explain it isn't in place to give the rich/elites a disadvantage when it comes to paying taxes.

Now take into account that the average household (with more than one bread winner and several jobs involved) is making about $50,000.00 annually and most of them will pay a higher percentage of that income, than somebody earning 6000 times that much. IOW an extremely large chunk is taken from the family but an individuals making $300 million will still be an extremely comfortable millionaire even if they paid the 39% burden that none of them pay. The the richest of the rich pay an average of less than 15% if we are being honest and a large portion of them pay less than 10, so save me the poor rich people speech. It's their government, and their tax code. If it isn't working for them, they have no one to blame but themselves.

 

I thought so.

 

If that is true, and the rich pay a smaller percentage of their income in taxes than the middle class, wouldn't it mean that a flat tax would actually benefit the middle class worker by forcing the wealthy to pay a bigger share of the taxes?

 

A flat income tax would, but a flat purchasing tax probably wouldn't unless we are talking about jocks or lottery winners that have money burning holes in their pockets. In any case the rich/elites would never go for a flat tax of any kind. The tax code they have put in place thanks to the best government corporate money can buy, already works best for them.

 

Sufficient to buy enough to eat, have decent shelter and obtain and maintain clothes enough to work in as well as transport to get there. Also sufficient health care as defined by Obamacare requirements. I'd also include internet service and a minimal cell phone link as those things are necessities for carrying on a normal working life nowadays. These all vary from place to place but given a specific place and it's costs I could easily figure one out.

Blow that up in my face if you're so smart.

 

Nice opinion, but what's the definition? All I see is a bunch of undefined wiggle words like sufficient, decent, enough, minimal.. not very definitive and certainly not ready for Webster's! BTW, it is erroneous to include OWEblamerCare-- everyone is suppose to already get it and at the minimum there is suppose to be no expense... unless you're admitting that OWEblmamerCare is truly a tax on low income as well.

 

The concept that jobs are not supposed to be "Living Wage" jobs is rather silly. Jobs are not supposed to be anything except a source of the labor necessary to accomplish a given task. Wages paid are just the minimum amount necessary to attract someone to do the job.

As long as there is a surplus of labor with the ability to do a given job the wages will stay low. If the employees can successfully unify into a union this can be ameliorated which is why there is a constant struggle between employers and unions.

As for setting a minimum wage, well it is somewhat a trade off between wages paid and welfare costs. If a family can't survive on earned wages then society steps in to supplement with welfare. Food stamps, etc.

 

Are these full time employees or day labor where you are not paying any insurance, social security, etc.

 

Full time boss

Construction is Texas is BOOMING

IF you want to work you can work

We have more work that we have workforce.

 

Well [MENTION=61441]pro[/MENTION]ffesor Peabody if $8 bucks an hour was all I could find the Welfare and Disability system pays much better and ya get the housing too

All these Low Wage people should just QUIT and go on the system then Employers would be FORCED to COMPETE with Entitlement Programs and RAISE WAGES

 

Why do you think Obama is having 4 million green cards printed for a total of 32 million?

 

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As I said companies need to pay Living Wages otherwise people aint gonna bother working

In 2014 people aint gonna struggle for seven dollars an hour anymore

 

Not as long as the State of Maryland pays $24 an hour to sit on their butts. Besides there's NOTHING stopping the individual states from raising their own minimum wage as high as they want, why the obsession with forcing everyone?

 

It is now 2015 and Scott Walker's naive thinking caused him to drop out of the GOP Presidential race.

 

Apparently it is what liberals aspire to.