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Politics : Mainstream Politics and Economics
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To: Little Joe who wrote (7023)1/18/2012 8:57:18 AM
From: Steve Lokness  Read Replies (4) of 85487
 
<<<Interesting views for a purported liberterian>>>>

Ya, you kind of got me there. Here's the thing though Little Joe; if an employer doesn't pay a man enough money to eat and feed and house his family - then the government ends up subsidizing the worker. We do that through food stamps and then medical care and alllllllllll those programs the people on the right hate so much. But aren't these welfare programs really a subsidy to the employer who after all is the one benefiting from lower wages? It's why I hate WalMart. If they don't pay enough money so that people can't get decent health care - then those of us who pay taxes end up subsidizing that person when they show up sick at the hospital. I'm not so much of a libertarian that I'm willing to push a sick child or mother or even a man into the street because they don't have the money to pay for care. Maybe some are?

Henry Ford - and others - had it right. You have to pay a man a decent wage to make it all work.
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