Originally Posted by
Seran
Without the government "being in the way" we'd still have small children working in coal mines and smelters would be dumping their byproducts into our drinking water supply. Men and women both would all be making slave labor wages sixteen hours a day, 7 days a week. No, big government has enforced fairness in the workplace and progressive corporations like Walmart, Amazon, Costco and a large number of the big banks are placing their lowest high wage scale into actual living wages. Everything you said champions the idea of getting out of the way of exploitation. The labor market is facing a massive upheaval ON IT'S OWN and being forced to offer living wages. Yes, prices will increase marginally to compensate and they will be forced to become more efficient, but so what, this is also what happens in a free market.
You're sitting here trying to argue both sides of the coin and failing at both by trying to cherry pick from my argument without really understanding what it is you're reading. Corporations /should/ pay higher taxes, as should those making middle six figure salaries. The non-cash earnings scam being perpetuated by corporate America should also be curtailed by taxing the stock at it's market value and then taxing or refunding the gain/loss when it's actually sold. These simple tax changes are being fought bitterly by your Republican vultures and looters. But you clearly think the amorality of society is solely based upon the failure to curtail the size of our government, forcing loveless couples to remain together for the sake of a foolish idealism around two parent households.
