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Benefit of right-to-work laws hard to measure
December 16, 2012 at 11:36 am in DL-Online
Michigan, the heart of American manufacturing, became the latest state to become a “right-to-work” state this week, prohibiting compulsory union participation. The move was greeted by demonstrations by protesters angered by the erosion of union power in the state. Continue Reading
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If you work for yourself, the sky is the limit.
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Fair trade agreements did not do that. Unions did that by pricing themselves out of the market. Unions bullied their way right out of a job. When it’s cheaper to outsource than it is to pay outrageous wages for simple labor, that’d what happens. If they kept those jobs in America, and still paid the wages the unions want, your products would be twice as much and no one would buy them. There was a time when unions were good and beneficial, and that was also the time before minimum wages and federal labor laws.
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Fair trade agreements did not do that. Unions did that by pricing themselves out of the market. Unions bullied their way right out of a job. When it’s cheaper to outsource than it is to pay outrageous wages for simple labor, that’d what happens. If they kept those jobs in America, and still paid the wages the unions want, your products would be twice as much and no one would buy them. There was a time when unions were good and beneficial, and that was also the time before minimum wages and federal labor laws.
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Crap. Sorry for the duplicate!
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I challenge all those who “thumbs down” my post to do a bit of research to see if what I post now is true.
When our nation was an economic powerhouse, the highest marginal tax rate was around 60%, and corporate CEOs earned between 20 to 40 times the wage of the average worker. Today, tax rates are at historical lows, and corporate CEOs earn 200 to 400 times the average workers wage.
And one more little tidbit – if the rise in average workers wages had kept pace with the rise in CEO compensation since 1980, the lowest paid American laborers would be making $23 an hour.
Economics really isn’t so hard to figure out if you pay attention to the factual data, rather than the right wing propaganda.
So, before you “thumbs down” this post, I challenge you to present some… any… credible data to refute mine. If you can.
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Shucks rebel, I thumbed you down just to respond. No one really likes dealing with you, I suspect, because it is like handling broken glass. Assuming what you say is true, so what. I rejoice that successful people are successful. Their success is why our poor people are the richest poor people in the world.
You, like Karl Marx, hate the concept of division of labor. You, like Karl Marx, envy and hate successful people. You think you are qualified to determine how much others should make. Only you and your ilk are qualified in leading the rest of us. You are laughable and dangerous in those things.
It’s why you show such a dislike and disdain for believers in God. Believers know that their God would not look favorably upon those like you that have such a hatred and envy of others, and such a conceit that you know how to decide for others.
I feel someone is sick in heart that do not celebrate the success of others like you – so much so that you wish to take if from them.
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You are confusing correlation with causation. When the US was an economic powerhouse, there was a computer in less than 1% of all homes and there were no cellphones. Maybe if we confiscate all PCs and cellphones we will become a powerhouse again.
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That is because you don’t recognize sarcasm. What are you trying to prove with your data?
You imply we are less of an economic powerhouse because CEO pay has increased with respect to workers pay. Explain why one caused the other.
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You can pass all these laws for people the right to work, but it doesn’t mean that they actually will. The problem is that the states need to do something about the welfare system. There too many people that would rather sit on their butts and get their free money every month than go get a job. Start drug testing these people and make them find work or cut them off.
If the government would love to help out it’s citizens than do something about all these companies that are outsourcing to other countries. About half the companies I call I get some person over in India who has no clue on what is going on, because they’re 7,000 miles away from the real company.
I blame our government for letting people be lazy and get free money and loosing jobs to other countries because they want to be cheap. It’s both democrat or republican parties that are letting this happen not just one or the other.
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No kidding and that is the government’s fault. If you have a person that is going to get paid to do nothing, get their insurance paid for, and get free daycare do you really think they will want to go find a job? Time for our government to WAKE UP and start cleaning house. Instead of welcoming illegal aliens, start sending them back and if they comeback again illegally execute them. Send a message to the rest. Don’t put them in jail, give them insurance, and free money like the welfare mongers. If they want to stay here then become a legal citizen. My grandparents did it the right way. Both of these problems, wlefare mongers and illegal aliens, are problms that our wonderful government turns a blind eye to. Instead of fighting over control of the government both parties need to get together and fix these two massive problems.
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Dude, you called him misinformed and hateful. That’s name calling isn’t it – or do you just use it to defame others?
And, oh yeah, you didn’t show where he was misinformed and hateful. Cheap shot dude.
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Rebel, last time I checked people on welfare get this money tax free and pay the minimal amount of taxes if any. So enlighten me on how this is fair to people like me that work the a$$es of their whole lives and hope that we made enough to retire on before the age of 75 and welfare mongers don’t have to worry about any of these problems.
Your mind is so clouded with hate towards people that are successful that you can’t see straight. Sure CEO’s make WAY more and some pay less taxes than most people. But they worked their way to that position. And how is are unions at fault for this? My wife is a teacher and pays into a union. They are there to protect the workers from getting screwed over by their employers. If it wasn’t for her union she would still be getting paid less than $30k a year. Sure some unions are corrupot, but that doesn’t mean that it’s their fault that these companies have to outsource to India. Look at all the companies that outsource. I am going to guess and say that 80% of the companies that outsource don’t have unions. Hell my morgage company and Shell call centers are outsourced in India.
Look at when America started going downhill like a giant snowball. It’s when technology took over. People are so lazy in this country that they can’t even call people, they text. There is no more vocal communication between people. They live on computers and kids have to wear sunglasses when they go outside because they are inside so much playing video games and on a computer.
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Mike S., it really isn’t that hard to figure out. If a company’s profits are divided into $X for the employees and $Y for executive salaries one year, and executive compensation increases 300%, that leaves considerably less available for employee compensation. And when that happens on a national scale, it undermines the buying power of the middle class resulting in flat economic growth.
Right to work will only serve to further reduce the buying power of America’s middle class resulting in even more stagnation of our economy.
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I guess you are preparing to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics. Go ahead and build the shelf but don’t spend the money because it ain’t gonna happen. Mike S is more correct than you are.
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