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Sorry, but solid regulatory schemes, and reliable business environments tend to be attractive to business. Business just needs predictable ground rules, that's it.
Anything is better than the Republican crazy-mobile at this point.
... and that is a tragedy of the commons. A collective series of individual decisions that make sense to the individual, but are economically self-defeating for the whole.
What would happen if every employer in the US suddenly gave all their workers an across the board 5% increase.
Think velocity of money.
Sorry, but solid regulatory schemes, and reliable business environments tend to be attractive to business. Business just needs predictable ground rules, that's it.
Anything is better than the Republican crazy-mobile at this point.
At a minimum.
But since you brought up what "liberal solutions" are, here is what they actually look like when one moves beyond cartoonish oversimplifications as Wild Cobra is so fond of:
This is in contract to the conservative solution: nothing. "there is no problem here, look the other way" or maybe "cut taxes on the rich"In a highly compe ive global economy, we need the best-educated workforce in the world. It is insane and counter-productive to the best interests of our country and our future, that hundreds of thousands of bright young people cannot afford to go to college, and that millions of others leave school with a mountain of debt that burdens them for decades. That shortsighted path to the future must end.
As President, Bernie Sanders will fight to make sure that every American who studies hard in school can go to college regardless of how much money their parents make and without going deeply into debt.
MAKE TUITION FREE AT PUBLIC COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES.
STOP THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FROM MAKING A PROFIT ON STUDENT LOANS.
SUBSTANTIALLY CUT STUDENT LOAN INTEREST RATES.
ALLOW STUDENTS TO USE NEED-BASED FINANCIAL AID AND WORK STUDY PROGRAMS TO MAKE COLLEGE DEBT FREE.
FULLY PAID FOR BY IMPOSING A TAX ON WALL STREET SPECULATORS
The cost of this plan is fully paid for by imposing a tax of a fraction of a percent on Wall Street speculators who nearly destroyed the economy seven years ago. More than 1,000 economists have endorsed a tax on Wall Street speculation and today some 40 countries throughout the world have imposed a similar tax including Britain, Germany, France, Switzerland, and China. If the taxpayers of this country could bailout Wall Street in 2008, we can make public colleges and universities tuition free and debt free throughout the country.
Feel free to post something to the contrary. I have yet to see any real viable ideas or solutions from the GOP that look even remotely like they will help the poor or middle class.
True.
Vocational education has suffered a severe decline. There is a demographic exit of baby boomers from the ranks of plumbers electricians and the like retire. The pipeline isn't there to fill those positions.
Wish I could re-find the article on that.
Nothing magical about the pot of gold. Pay people more and earn a bit less in profit for the month, and raise prices a bit.
Collectively this increases what economists call the "velocity of money".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
Overall, the massive increase in wages such as that seen at the beginning of the "car" economy, points to a very real phenomena in which actual workers benefit.
As it is, about all we are doing is increasing our gini coefficient. Since most of the economic growth in the US goes to the very few that own most of the equity/debt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient
Read a bit more on the economics at the links above.
I'm for periodic minimum wage growth that coincides with inflation. Iirc minimum wage hikes have lagged behind inflation, and that's no good. I don't think I sudden hike to a national $15 will be healthy.
I think the bigger issue is making college education more accessible and affordable. However, dumping money into it isn't going to help. The university system of budgets and spending are broken. Just look at UCLA's tuition figures from 2000 to now. There needs to be a mass scale audit because colleges are getting away with theft.
the minimum wage is a poverty wage, so taxpayers have to assist minimum wage workers with food stamps, healthcare, etc, etc.
So You People rightwingnuts support not touching minimum wage, only indexing it to inflation, so as to keep 10Ms of people in poverty and on public assistance.
Taxpayer assistance to poverty wage works subsidizes the profits of businesses who pay poverty wages, and of those businesses' investors.
But the more people that decide they want to go to college, the more colleges can theoretically get away with charging. Also, so many colleges have gotten into a non-academic facilities arms race. There are schools spending tens and hundreds of millions of dollars on lavish recreation centers, dorms and general hang-outs.
And don't get me started on (non-vocational) for-profit schools...
But the more people that decide they want to go to college, the more colleges can theoretically get away with charging. Also, so many colleges have gotten into a non-academic facilities arms race. There are schools spending tens and hundreds of millions of dollars on lavish recreation centers, dorms and general hang-outs.
And don't get me started on (non-vocational) for-profit schools...
More Than Half of All Americans Make Under 30,000 Dollars a Year According to a Shocking New Report
The federal poverty level for a family of five is $28,410, and yet almost 40 percent of all American workers do not even bring in $20,000 a year.
If you worked a full-time job at $10 an hour all year long with two weeks off, you would make approximately $20,000. This should tell you something about the quality of the jobs that our economy is producing at this point.
And of course [the numbers in the SSA report] are only for those that are actually working. As I discussed just recently, there are 7.9 million working age Americans that are “officially unemployed” right now and another 94.7 million working age Americans that are considered to be “not in the labor force”. When you add those two numbers together, you get a grand total of 102.6 million working age Americans that do not have a job right now.
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/more_than_half_of_all_americans_make_under_30000_d ollars_a_year_20151027?utm_source=feedburner&utm_m edium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+Truthdig+Truthdi g%253A+Drilling+Beneath+the+Headlines
I disagree. The outcome of your scenario would be inflation imo.
Do you not fore-see any downstream complications with this?
EVERYONE gets a shot at free college - as long as they can get into a public college? MANY of those have completely relaxed entrance standards - meaning ALL applicants get in....is everyone college material? Does every job require it?
"College" becomes grades 13 - 16
NOW if Bernie puts a cap on entrance, like in, say, NORWAY or Germany, so only the best students get a ride? Then it's worth considering; otherwise, the bloat, and explosive cost growth involved with this? Impossible...add to that that a "College" education becomes a piece of paper, and not an actual education because NO ONE will flunk out, and the universities won't want to give up that money pipeline?
Not to mention the end of trade schools and sub-elite private universities...really hard to compete with "Free".
The Rich? Oh they'll do fine. While the public universities get bogged down educating "Everyone"; the Rich continue to send their kids to Ivy League and similar schools. They get a fantastic education, and have less compe ion from the Riff Raff....
I could support Bernie simply for wanting to break up the Big Banks - he's the only candidate saying that as far as I know. But this policy suggestion of free public 4 year college is either a ploy to pick up millennial and limousine liberal support, with no real expectation of passing, OR he's just that ignorant and short sighted. Either way, don't want him as president.
Family != Worker
Three card Monty.
Precisely why there needs to be a massive audit. It's going to need a systemic overhaul, not just simple budget increases
"need a systemic overhaul"
... like every suggestion in this thread, not gonna happen.
VRWC/Repugs have so effectively trashed, lied about public schools, teachers (red states have laid off 100Ks of teachers to kill unions and teacher contributions), teacher unions, NEA for purely political and financial reasons that it's now false "common knowledge" that public schools suck.
Even "blue" Los Angeles is proposing to convert 50% of its schools to charters, while charter schools, financed by taxpayers, have been shown to be mostly scams with equal or worse results that public schools, with no oversight and $100Ms simly disappeared.
America is ed and un able. The VRWC/Repugs/ALEX/USCoC/1%/BigFinance are much bigger risks to USA than all the Muslim terrorists combined
Arne Duncan just gave away $150M to charter schools as he left office, saying how wonderful they are, deny the FACTS of how bad charter schools are.
My guess is that Duncan shows up next somewhere in the charter school business.
The problem isn't minimum wage. The problem is what causes people with job experience being forced into minimum wage jobs.
I blame, primarily our manufacturing leaving the USA.
Stop buying made in China, made in Indonesia, Cambodia, etc.
Shop for "Made in the USA" products, and pit Americans back to work by supporting their jobs.
Our manufacturing leaves the USA because it is more profitable for them to go overseas. I contend our tax structure is a very significant reason for this.
The problem IS that minimum and 25% above is A POVERTY WAGE, requiring taxpayers to subsidize poverty, rather than employers to pay a non-poverty wage.
The manufacturing industry was destroyed because that's what BigCorp, aided by Repugs/VRWC wanted to destroy, by passing all kinds of globalization for the past 30 years.
USA BigCorp pays a smaller %age of national tax revenue than do corporations in other industrial countries, and much lower than USA BigCorp has paid in the past.
You're blindly wrong on every single point, as always.
Good. We need some.
Kerbal space program is one of the coolest games out there, IMO. Wish I had more time to play it.
I see a whole lot of "ifs" there. Any data to support the "ifs"? We already have explosive cost growth. That is part of the problem. The other part is we need good trade schools to absorb the people who don't really need to go to school. No one, and I mean no one, says we should relax standards to do all this.
I can readily outline the cost of doing nothing at the moment, which is to dump a massive burden of debt on young people, as we have continued to do.
Servicing that debt means these kids are not buying things. That places an enormous drag on our economy.According to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, outstanding student loan debt in the United States lies between $902 Billion and $1 Trillion with around $864 Billion in Federal student loan debt. As of Quarter 1 in 2012, the average student loan balance for all age groups is $24,301.
No we don't. Why would you think that?
I started a few albums:
http://planarizer.imgur.com/
To balance our currency. Make USA goods cheaper to sell globally, and imports more expensive to buy.
Artificially holding down inflation may doom us.
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