bring back protectionism in the form of anti-free trade tariffs to stop outsourcing. enforce an updated ($23.50) minimum wage, tax the rich at an eisenhoweresque 75%. cancel all subsidies to businesses who aren't innovating or are profiting. Make for-profit prison labor illegal. Transfer all public works contracts away from private corporate interests and to the americorps national service to rebuild america's infrastructure. Give each american a choice after high school of either serving in the armed forces, peace corps, or americorps and reward them with a free college education upon completion of service...etc.
Originally posted by Darth JelloA lot of places would probably go out of business from those changes. aka, more unemployed people. You may be right that it would be a better system, Im saying it still wouldnt eliminate unemployment
bring back protectionism in the form of anti-free trade tariffs to stop outsourcing. enforce an updated ($23.50) minimum wage, tax the rich at an eisenhoweresque 75%. cancel all subsidies to businesses who aren't innovating or are profiting. Make for-profit prison labor illegal. Transfer all public works contracts away from private corporate interests and to the americorps national service to rebuild america's infrastructure. Give each american a choice after high school of either serving in the armed forces, peace corps, or americorps and reward them with a free college education upon completion of service...etc.
Originally posted by Darth Jello
bring back protectionism in the form of anti-free trade tariffs to stop outsourcing. enforce an updated ($23.50) minimum wage, tax the rich at an eisenhoweresque 75%. cancel all subsidies to businesses who aren't innovating or are profiting. Make for-profit prison labor illegal. Transfer all public works contracts away from private corporate interests and to the americorps national service to rebuild america's infrastructure. Give each American a choice after high school of either serving in the armed forces, peace corps, or americorps and reward them with a free college education upon completion of service...etc.
enforce an updated ($23.50) minimum wage
- Good-bye small business owners.
cancel all subsidies to businesses who aren't innovating or are profiting
- See above^^
Give each American a choice after high school of either serving in the armed forces, peace corps, or americorps and reward them with a free college education upon completion of service...etc.
- Then who pays for it? The government, or maybe those poor small business owners, obviously they can afford it.
BTW, an unemployment rate of 4-6% is actually where it should be and has been for awhile people. I think we are between 6-7% right now, this is not exactly a cause for concern.
Originally posted by Darth Jello
more money=more disposable income=more demand for goods=more jobs and more businesses to meet those demands. It's called demand side economics and it works a **** of a lot better than the supply side reagan bullshit.
You mean that having a product, lying to the consumer about their ability to afford it, selling it to them anyway because you know they don't understand the fine print and are taking you at your word as a representative of the finacial institution that told them they could afford it, and then ****ing them over and expecting all consumers to bail the liar out isn't good economic policy?
I walked into a grocery store to buy a gallon of milk for my family. I saw that it cost $4.69 but I only had $3.58. When I turned around to leave I was stopped by a guy with an "I'm here to help" nametag, telling me I could afford the 5 dollar gallon of milk even though I only had three bucks. When I got to the register, it actually cost me $7.50. I'm left wondering why I was still able to walk out of the store with a gallon of milk. Should I try to return it? If I do, the store won't sell me any more milk and neither will any other store. In fact, it'll be seven or more years before I can buy another gallon of milk. Do I take the milk home to my family or do I risk them not having milk for the next decade?
official unemployment statistics only count those who are collecting unemployment insurance while seeking employment. They do not count discouraged workers who have either given up seeking employment or are not registered through insurance or otherwise as "unemployed". By those standards, our unemployment rate is waaaay higher than officially reported. And i guess i didn't make myself clear. i meant only subsidize big business if they are working on some innovative product that solves a major social issue, not pay them blood money so they don't raise the price of oil. I have no problem with subsidizing legitimate small businesses as long as they have a feasable business plan and up until the point where they can compete on their own. As for who pays for americorps/peacecorps/armed services...how about the money we save by not shelling things out to private contractors? What to do about private contractors? Have them work purely in the private sector which most do anyway because it's more lucrative than the public sector anyway. What about more youth build programs? tightening tax exempt standards for religious organizations?
Originally posted by Darth Jello
tightening tax exempt standards for religious organizations?
Don't tighten them; eliminate them. There might be a few less mega-churches across the street from the super-Wal-Marts if you do. In the town in which I gerw up, there is no small buiness growth. Not one business in the last 10 years, that I can recall, has succeded. (Other than pawn shops and mega-churches) Does the Super-Wal-Mart that opened 10 years ago, 20 miles down the highway, have anything to do with it? I don't know for sure. I haven't been there to see the changes and my family no longer lives there. But I think the sudden collapse of the small, independant local economy that had to shift to the larger town next door might be interconnected.
By the way, I'm not disagreeing with a lot that you're saying. I'm simply using it as a springboard to voice my own opinions.
Originally posted by Darth Jello
official unemployment statistics only count those who are collecting unemployment insurance while seeking employment. They do not count discouraged workers who have either given up seeking employment or are not registered through insurance or otherwise as "unemployed". By those standards, our unemployment rate is waaaay higher than officially reported. And i guess i didn't make myself clear. i meant only subsidize big business if they are working on some innovative product that solves a major social issue, not pay them blood money so they don't raise the price of oil. I have no problem with subsidizing legitimate small businesses as long as they have a feasable business plan and up until the point where they can compete on their own. As for who pays for americorps/peacecorps/armed services...how about the money we save by not shelling things out to private contractors? What to do about private contractors? Have them work purely in the private sector which most do anyway because it's more lucrative than the public sector anyway. What about more youth build programs? tightening tax exempt standards for religious organizations?
I hate to be rude, but you sound like some nutty kid being forced fed far left bullshit out of Colorado University. Maybe your just being sarcastic and if so, good job. Tax the wealthy at 75%, holy crap this is good.
kid? colorado university? far-left? wow. so taxation and social programs are socialism but subsidies aren't right? Radical, yes. nutty, no. You're in Germany. I don't think you understand a lopsided tax burden/economic situation wherein the middle class which is required for a free and equitable society is shrinking. Also, the tax on the upper class WAS that high up until more or less the johnson administration. Not to mention the UK's previous taxation of upper tax brackets at around 90% pre-thatcher. the only bad effects would be a distinct lack of multibillionaires, boo hoo.
As for you kid rock, as stupid as you usually sound you sound even more so now since slavery would increase unemployment due to the high level of free labor which would increase homelessness and therefore increase slavery until we either have a feudalist society subsisting entirely on exporting slave-made goods or our whole society/economy collapses when there aren't enough consumers to sustain producers since no one can buy anything due to lack of real wages.
Originally posted by Darth Jello
bring back protectionism in the form of anti-free trade tariffs to stop outsourcing. enforce an updated ($23.50) minimum wage
Almost no one will be able to afford that. Pretty much all small businesses will die. The Big Businesses will become way more expensive and the unemployment will actually sky rocket. Good job, you destroyed your country with just one decision.
Originally posted by Darth Jello
tax the rich at an eisenhoweresque 75%.
Lots of rich will leave the country, with them big parts of their businesses and lots of jobs.
Originally posted by Darth Jello
cancel all subsidies to businesses who aren't innovating or are profiting.
I'd cancel all subsidies.
Originally posted by Darth Jello
Transfer all public works contracts away from private corporate interests and to the americorps national service to rebuild america's infrastructure.
How would that create jobs? That just seems to shift jobs to a less capable and more expensive service.
Originally posted by Darth Jello
Give each american a choice after high school of either serving in the armed forces, peace corps, or americorps and reward them with a free college education upon completion of service...etc.
More college education doesn't create more college education jobs. Neither do you really need more people in the armed forces your millions are more than enough already, don't you think?
Originally posted by Darth Jello
the only bad effects would be a distinct lack of multibillionaires
lol
well, that plan will attract investment and the creation of new places where people can work
at least you are proposing that the gvt take over, because history isn't full of examples of the government failing to do what it sets out to. And they are way less corrupt than the private sector. No dishonest politicians.
like I said, forced labour ends unemployment, glad we agree 😉