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That is absolute nonsense. There are no assistance programs that make people so comfy that they prefer to stay home, but I'm sure you will counter that with a Heritage Foundation list of 150 + welfare programs out of which almost no one receives more than 2 or 3 benefits.
I worked with poor women with young children in Nevada and every one of them would have gladly accepted employment if they had transportation and childcare. A family of three in Nevada receives a whopping $383 a month in welfare, subsidized housing has a 6-10 year wait list in most areas so they either sofa surf, share an apartment or live in weekly motels. The only other benefits they receive are SNAP, medicaid and if they have an infant- WIC which has a cash equivalent of about $40. There are real obstacles to overcome for a poor person, especially one with small children to entering the workforce. And there is a 5 federal limit to welfare benefits and many states limit it to 12 or 24 months.
WHY are they having children with no job, no transportation, no childcare, no health benefits? I'll tell you why - because we have made it COMFY to stay home and raise those children with no thought as to how they will support them. Look at the litany of benefits that are available, ALL paid for through the hard work of taxpaying Americans.
Black and white thinking. There are other options besides maximum and minimum altruism.
Naturally. And the "other" option always seems to be "force someone else to give up their hard earned money. But mine will stay safe with me, because that's different somehow."
Naturally. And the "other" option always seems to be "force someone else to give up their hard earned money. But mine will stay safe with me, because that's different somehow."
Are you talking about those who evade their taxes?
Even if every statement in your post is 100% true, this is only a descriptive statement, not a prescriptive one. In other words, it does not address what wages workers ought to be paid. The third is possibly an exception.
Wages that a worker ought to be paid is what they, and their employer, decide upon. That decision is based on any number of factors. But NONE of them are based on what an employee needs to survive. THAT'S on the employee.
Do you even realize that this almighty government that decides WHAT WAGED WORKERS OUGHT TO BE PAID is what mankind has fought against throughout history?
Wages that a worker ought to be paid is what they, and their employer, decide upon. That decision is based on any number of factors. But NONE of them are based on what an employee needs to survive. THAT'S on the employee.
Again, you are only making a descriptive statement. The question is why employees' survival is not something the employer ought to consider.
Use utilitarianism, social contract theory, or Kantian ethics...
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Do you even realize that this almighty government that decides WHAT WAGED WORKERS OUGHT TO BE PAID is what mankind has fought against throughout history?
Some of mankind has fought against it. Others have fought for it.
Your libertarian nirvana is not working out so well for people who have to struggle to feed their families, the deck is very strategically stacked against them.
Economics is about property rights and the efficient allocation of resources, and the study of governmental interventions in a variety of cases (e.g., natural monopoly) and government procurement (e.g., police protection and national defense).
Economics doesn't have anything to do with an organ that pumps blood.
Not always. Some people don't have the money to move. They are trapped.
Is your observation that GNP would increase if, instead assistance programs that keep people in place, the government offered the destitute a supply of suitcases and bus tickets?
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