Posted on 08/12/2019 3:38:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
Feel free to steal my post and use it.
Is there a federal minimum wage now? - C’mon, you know the answer to that one.
Should there be? - That’s a fascinating academic exercise, but you won’t convince a majority of voters that the answer is no anytime soon.
The Dem promises are ridiculous. Even reporters know better than ask how they will pay for this free stuff for fear of making their candidates look even more foolish.
Noted the same logic vs. *FREE* h’care wasn’t applied to high taxation\outright theft: (economic) slavery by degrees.
Spending not only has to go *down*, but entitlements need to be ELIMINATED.
IOW: FOLLOW\ENFORCE. THE. CONSTITUTION.
Sometimes what’s best for Wall Street
really IS what’s best for America.
But not always. And basically Republicans have handed them their entire wish on a platter for thirty-five friggin’ years.
There are many of us who think that it is none of the government’s business about how much someone is willing to work for in order to advance themselves in life. This is a person by person INDIVIDUAL choice which should be left to the person who lives with the results. In many ways, it is the raw foundational building block of freedom itself. Freedom. Free to make one’s own decisions without being imposed upon by busybodies claiming to know better than you and forcing their will upon you and your life decisions. How much money you are willing to accept as salary for performance of a task is certainly your own individual choice. I have no right to be included in the decision and asking my government to give that right to me opens the door to a very slippery slope of one decision after another being stolen from the free will of those whom the decisions really belong. You choose minimum wage laws. I choose freedom.
Perhaps, FRiend. But we should fight to keep a federal minimum wage from being established. If it is, the politicians will (by their nature) continually increase it, driving up unemployment and adding cost to every product.
And that's a bad idea; it would do serious damage to the economy.
Economics 101, supply and demand.
Libertarians are going have to accept it.
A major problem with the Democrats' big ideas is that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for any of the listed ideas.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
In other words, misguided Democratic hopeful nominees for POTUS should actually be trying to get elected to state governments to push their ideas since the states uniquely have the 10th Amendment (10A)-protected power to care for the people.
In fact, the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, a constitutional lawmaker, had clarified that the Founding States had given the states, not the feds, the lion’s share of government power to care for the people.
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
Justice Brandeis had reflected on Bingham’s words when he likewise emphasized state power to serve the people.
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose [emphasis added], serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
Note that constitutional limits on states as laboratories of democracy is that states cannot establish privileged / protected classes or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must maintain a constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government.
H O W E V E R…
The states won’t be able to do their constitutional duty to serve the people until patriots support PDJT in putting a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes indicated by the Gibbons v. Ogden opinion, such taxes arguably stolen state revenues.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States."—Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
More specifically, patriots need to elect a new patriot Congress in the 2020 elections that will not only promise to support PDJT’s vision for MAGA, now KAG, but will also promise to surrender state powers that the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification feds have been stealing from the states back to the states.
And to make such changes permanent, patriots also need to support PDJT in repealing the 16th and ill-conceived 17th Amendments.
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)
"The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to control government power to tax." —me
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically rival, corrupt voter unions, “union dues” paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.” —me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
If, as Mr. McFrog suggests, the argument is now all about how high the minimum wage is to be then Mr. McFrog evidently believes that the minimum wage accomplishes the objective of providing a better living for all. In that case the minimum wage should be, in my humble opinion, not less than ten thousnd dollars per minute. Why fool around? If a little is good then a whole mess of it must be better.
If someone else is willing to do a task cheaper than you it’s not the government’s problem to solve. Illegal immigration is one of the few problems that it is the government’s job to solve. Address the problem of illegal immigration in a way that doesn’t insert the government’s nose into how much money I choose to work for. It is none of their business. If it is, when are they going to define what a “maximum” wage is? A federal definition of what is a minimum wage helps states where the cost of living exceeds this wage and hurts states where the cost of living is lower than this wage. The Fourteenth Amendment says we must all be treated EQUALLY so a federal minimum wage is unconstitutional on this basis alone because of the variance of effect it has on the economies of the states individually. A minimum wage of $15.00 per hour has almost no effect on most northeastern states but puts a huge burden on most of the rest of the country business wise. Sorry, this is NOT equal. It will not fly.
Yes! I think that brilliant statement of yours should be the GOP campaign 2020 slogan and it's main meme:
"If someone else is willing to do a task cheaper than you it’s not the government’s problem to solve."
I am sure the GOP can take all 50 states with a campaign slogan like that.
Such a statement has NOTHING to do with illegal immigration. It has EVERYTHING to do with allowing competition in the marketplace being the final arbiter of cost/product pricing rather than some government dictated outcome. All Americans would benefit from being able to buy products cheaper and being able to compete for work that others currently are charging too much for. That's how a free market works. The GOP could certainly say they will remove government interference in the free market and get tons of support.
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