Well ok, how about removing 10 million or more illegals from the labor pool and creating a little price tension in the low wage earner’s job market?
Fact is, the rich pay too much in taxes but wages are lower now in real dollars than they have been for almost a century.
Low wage earners have a vote and should use it to improve the labor market by getting rid of illegals. It would help us all in the long run.
That would certainly help. But as I just said on another thread, people are just going to have to come to terms with the reality that we are operating in a global economy. Wages have to go down some for average workers. We have to compete and that is a hard reality American workers need to understand. We have to get rid of unions and illegals. At the same time, you cannot simply make up for it by raising taxes on the top income bracket because they will just leave eventually and/or park the money offshore. We see that happening now. As for someone making 25-35k a year, they can afford to put a little into the pot and forgo the big screen tv. I am torn on the flat tax though. I do think we could keep a progressive system in place but the lower 50% have to take part and we have to get the rates down for businesses and frankly, stop taxing capital gains at all. Taxes were already paid on that money. If we did that and privatized Medicare and SS we would positioned to cpete and keep business here.
Heck, that one’s simple. Jail employers, confiscate their assets. Won’t take long before the people with something to lose wise up and hire citizens instead of illegals. W-A-Y easier than chasing 10 million illegals around, deporting them, and then having them cross back over the border to get a job again.