This Is Scott Walker's Idea Of A Living Wage

It's not Scott Walker's idea. It's the consumers' view of what their work is worth.

Of course, HuffPo hates consumers.

 

Guess it depends on how someone lives when they're making $7.25/hr, right? I mean, what other standard is there? In this Obama booming economy anyone who needs to make more should be, shouldn't they?

It's hysterical to watch you folks tripping over yourselves. One day you're touting the great Obama recovery the next you're telling us how unfair it is and that we desperately need to mandate higher wages. Comical. Oh well, duplicity always makes for an amusing debate.

 

I challange you to show me where it is that the majority of all jobs in America are minimum wage, entry level jobs and filled by only Americans.

Any American adult who has not moved passed a minimum wage job has done so at their own doing. I submitt that those who stay in an entry level job are ruining it for our younger workforce by clogging up the pipe and keeping younger workers unemployed.

 

I know it is for many illegals not for for the many Americans.

 

Obamacare for starters, which is a tax, one most can't afford.

 

You work, you eat, you pay bills for shelter.
Enough wage to cover food and shelter, and perhaps the gas or other transportation to get you to work. Is it a set wage, no. It varies by locality and surrounding prices.

 

What actually bothers you and other political pundits, is that Walker or someone like him is going to win in 2016 and actually turn the economy around. That would mean 8 years of trashing conservatives would mean several decades of future growth and prosperity, similar to Reagan's affects and back to reasonable up/down in a free driven capitalist economy, which will shut the door on progressivism or what I would call as socialism.

I honestly don't know if it's even possible, but what Walker has done for Wisconsin, the birth place of many liberal policies, now being implemented nationwide, could be beneficial for all Americans, not to mention what it could mean for the world, both in the economics but geopolitical affairs. For the record and IMO, this is an exact opposite of the example set most the past 13 years.

Have you considered, a living wage in one area of the US can differ from another, even in the same State, much less in the Nation? Leave it to the States, maybe even with in the States to set these wages, but the best thing would be letting the markets do this and get Governments out of the way.

 

One tax from the federal government in 5 years? Are there more?

 

I also think that eliminating tax breaks for corporations who pay no taxes whatsoever (GE comes to mind; there plenty of others as well) would go a long way to assist the antidote needed for the once viable middle class and down trodden poor.

 

Considering Mary Burke was just called out on several campaign lies by various new organizations people that support her can go (*)(*)(*)(*) themselves. Wisconsin has become the 2nd or 3rd fastest growing economy in the midwest in the last 3 years and it is the ONLY state with a fully funded pension.

And despite the claims about loss of eduction money the fact is that Act 10 saved far more money than any state spending cuts. Most school districts that adopted Act 10 laws with their new contracts saved millions of dollars. In fact the only three school districst that actually lost money were the three Democrat districts that opted to renew their old contracts before Act 10 came into effect. Now all of a sudden those same school districts are trying to sue to redo those contracts under Act 10 rules. They can go (*)(*)(*)(*) themselves. They signed the contracts early out of political spite so they can deal with the consequences.

 

What? You were wrong about democrats raising taxes and you want more proof!

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ROFL, Obamacare isn't one tax. It's a bevy of them:

Individual Mandate

2.3% Tax on Medical Device Manufacturers 2014

10% Tax on Indoor Tanning Services 2014

Blue Cross/Blue Shield Tax Hike

Excise Tax on Charitable Hospitals which fail to comply with the requirements of ObamaCare

Tax on Brand Name Drugs

Tax on Health Insurers

Elimination of tax deduction for employer-provided retirement Rx drug coverage in coordination with Medicare Part D

Employer Mandate on business with over 50 full-time equivalent employees to provide health insurance to full-time employees. $2000 per employee $3000 if employee uses tax credits to buy insurance on the exchange (marketplace). (pushed back to 2015)

Medicare Tax on Investment Income 3.8% over $200k/$250k

Medicare Part A Tax increase of .9% over $200k/$250k

40% Excise Tax "Cadillac" on high-end Premium Health Insurance Plans 2018

An annual $63 fee levied by ObamaCare on all plans

Medicine Cabinet Tax. Over the counter medicines no longer qualified as medical expenses for flexible spending accounts (FSAs), health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), health savings accounts (HSAs), and Archer Medical Saving accounts (MSAs).

Additional Tax on HSA/MSA Distributions. Health savings account or an Archer medical savings account, penalties for spending money on non-qualified medical expenses. 10% to 20% in the case of a HSA and from 15% to 20% in the case of a MSA.

http://obamacarefacts.com/obamacare-taxes.php

 

Please show me where I was wrong. I'll wait patiently.

 

So Scott Walker is deciding how much people make now? What a sad and pathetic attempt to demonize.....

 

Judging by the number of anti Waklker threads, he's the biggest threat to a Hillary Presidency who is the default candidate because there simply isn't anyone else.

 

Do liberals really believe that a minimum wage is an hourly wage where people start a job....and then NEVER get raises? Never move up? Never get promoted? A minimum wage enables young teenagers with absolutely no skills to get a first job. It's how one learns skills....from starting at the bottom. I once earned a minimum wage...and I'm betting YOU did too.

 

They need to shove the welfare, food stamps and WIC's coupons off on the private sector by raising the minimum wage. After all they are making Millions of illegals into new Democrat voters.

 

You already were proven absolutely wrong. Asking for additional proof is simply asinine.

 

.... does smoking cigerrettes need to be included? what about rimz on their lifted z-71..... Make better choices with the money you have, instead of spending it on luxury items first, then holding a "woe is me" party when you can't feed your 5 babies

whose fault is it that they have no marketable skills to offer society....
whose fault is it that they did not value the free education in school.....
whose fault is it that they would rather make babies instead of going to college or improving their skillset in a trade.....
whose fault is it that they can't manage their money better

certainly not the wealthy's fault....

 

If you were born into a poor neighborhood with very bad public schools it is a lot harder to make your own opportunities. The least this country could do is make a good education available to every child. And we as a country don't even get close to doing this.

 

The idea that this issue just started with the Obama administration is indicative of the agenda of the righties in their tighty little whitties.

 

Just because one's intellectual concept of existence can fit on the head of a pin doesn't mean it can dance with angels.

 

And many are only qualified for such a position, because they have neither the desire, drive or ability to be any better. Besides a handicap, nothing holds you back except you.

 

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Now for all of us who are laughing hysterically you need to explain how the flat tax is going to eliminate inflation and reduce the high cost of living.

 

if you don't value the education as a community... it's amazing how bad the neighborhood schools seem