Minimum Wage Sucks Because

[Martin Hash]

Businesses shouldn't pay ANY Income Tax at all, it should be passed through to the owners who pay at their Progressive rate. (Haven't you been paying attention.)

"Loopholes" are what Republicans & Flat-Taxers call what the Middle Class get. There's nothing any tax code can do about companies, which is one of the reasons they should be eliminated altogether. I could rig up something for a corporation to minimize taxes in half a day or so, and there's nothing the tax code could do about it except invade Nevis.

Fine, yet somehow we're being told about how 'onerous' the taxes are on those poor rich folks, and how we really just need to lighten their load for the good of us all or something cause Republican.

You forgot "raising tide lifts all ships" - that's the big one. Aristocracies are good because everyone gets an iPhone.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Businesses shouldn't pay ANY Income Tax at all, it should be passed through to the owners who pay at their Progressive rate. (Haven't you been paying attention.)

"Loopholes" are what Republicans & Flat-Taxers call what the Middle Class get. There's nothing any tax code can do about companies, which is one of the reasons they should be eliminated altogether. I could rig up something for a corporation to minimize taxes in half a day or so, and there's nothing the tax code could do about it except invade Nevis.

Fine, yet somehow we're being told about how 'onerous' the taxes are on those poor rich folks, and how we really just need to lighten their load for the good of us all or something cause Republican.

You forgot "raising tide lifts all ships" - that's the big one. Aristocracies are good because everyone gets an iPhone.

I believe the line is usually something like "richest country in the history of time because we have iPhones".

Econ for Idiots 101.

[Martin Hash]

I believe the line is usually something like "richest country in the history of time because we have iPhones".

What makes that quip especially good is that it's true.

[SuburbanFarmer]

I believe the line is usually something like "richest country in the history of time because we have iPhones".

What makes that quip especially good is that it's true.

it is completely true. Except for the dupes living in it that think they aren't being fucked.

[Fife]

The immigrant problem definitely exists, but since the banks are able to flood the market with cheap credit we haven't reached a point where the economy is grinding to a halt because the vast majority of the public can't afford anything.

Nice.

End the Fed.

BTW, congrats on another thread especially attractive to your soft brained members seeking further softening.

[heydaralon]

Minimum Wage sucks because that means Martin is overpaid via mandate from the government.

[Fife]

Mentally Disabled to Lose Jobs Due to Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage

[Zlaxer]

Mentally Disabled to Lose Jobs Due to Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage

Grow the plantation!

[Zlaxer]

But seriously Fife - you still haven't told me what happens to all those who will be rendered economically useless by automation? What happens when there are no jobs that the proles can perform?

[Fife]

But seriously Fife - you still haven't told me what happens to all those who will be rendered economically useless by automation? What happens when there are no jobs that the proles can perform?

First, we don't have to speculate about the fate of the mentally challenged under the Robot Thumb; they have already been rendered useless wards of the state by the pointy-headed fuckers in Seattle.

But to your point: Don't be dull; be bright! No wonder the government school buses don't have any Darwin fishes; all they teach is Devolution.

We've talked about it a good bit, though:

[T]he Luddite reflexive position regarding automation is contrary to history and observable human behavior. Automation creates more products, not more leisure time. As much as starry-eyed dreamers have loved to wax poetic about grown ups sitting around singing folk songs all day for centuries, it turns out people would rather have pick-up trucks, cheeseburgers, clean drinking water, computers, iPhones, and medication. viewtopic.php?p=67968#p67968

... and "Fuck Work" and the critique of that. viewtopic.php?p=73550#p73550