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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A better start would be to end corporate welfare in which companies get away with paying such low wages that a person working a full time job or two part time jobs ends up at the poverty line and thus subsidized by the taxpayer.

They should pay a living wage.  And, they can afford to do so.

How about we deal with the out-of-control housing market, in which rent consumes an inordinate amount of many peoples' income, and home ownership is out of reach?

How about we deal with wealth inequality, for example there being no legitimate reason why a corporate CEO today should be making tens of millions of dollars a year when his predecessor a few decades ago wasn't even making 1 million a year.  That CEO today isn't actually any more effective, special or worth the extra money than his predecessor was.

How about we actually reward the producers and those who create jobs, like small business, and disincentivize and much more aggressively tax people who just suck money out of the economy, house flippers and middlemen and hedge fund traders and arbitrageurs who make their money through manipulating real estate, commodities, stocks, currency et cetera and who don't actually produce anything or contribute in any meaningful way to society.  And even more so with predatory businesses.[/quote]
Here is the short version/summation of the above....

How about we kill free enterprise? How about we create an environment that eliminates incentive? How about we take from the rich and give it to the poor?[/quote]

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