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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Business owners don't want to pay living wages to anyone. The GOP makes unions the bad guy, for daring to expect living wages and worker protections. The right claims that if businesses had to pay living wages, costs on everyday goods and services would rise. Yada, yada, yada, right? We all know this spiel.

BUT the reality is that prices don't have to go up. Instead, wait for it,[b] our society could demand that CEOs/CFOs/etc. be paid normal wages.[/b] Shocking idea, right?! We could rise up and stop accepting the bizarre salaries and benefits that come on the backs of the workers as acceptable in an advanced society. Wealth would be more evenly distributed, which should be a goal of any properly functioning society. I'm just. so. tired. of hearing that better wages for the little guy automatically equals higher costs when there's a giant elephant in the room being stroked by most politicians but especially the GOP. [/quote]
But that's anti-capitalism.  It's very anti-old school R, and more like the western European model, and you know Rs think the European model is a dirty word -- socialism.

I find it funny how populists are anti-regulation, want living wages, companies to stop hiring foreign workers and offshoring jobs ... and yet call themselves capitalist.

Regulating CEO pay and where a company can hire labor is not capitalism.

But, I do agree with you, PP.  Unfortunately, MAGA don't get that you cannot want capitalism and force companies to regulate CEO pay and where they can hire.

I recall years ago when Rs were talking about tax cuts for businesses, Dems want to add a provision in there to ensure that companies use those tax breaks to hire Americans, but Rs were against it because, of course, companies know how money should be better spent.  Even when the CEOs told the Trump administration that they would not be hiring more American workers, and even when some people stated (myself included) that these companies would be using the tax breaks to buy back stocks, MAGA and Trump chose to ignore it.  He was not too happy when those jobs didn't appear like he thought they would.  That's because he's a moron who's never worked for a publicly traded company, and clearly doesn't know much about how they operate.  Pretty dumb businessman, not to mention all his bankrupt businesses.[/quote]

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