People’s beliefs are based on each individual’s personal experience, knowledge, temperament and intelligence.
People who live in developing countries do not have the expenses that we have, nor do they have clean water, clean air, good medical care, reliable infrastructure, etc. They make less money because their standard of living is so much worse than ours.
Do we really want to turn the U.S. into such a place?
IMHO, instead of dragging everyone down to the lowest common denominator, I’d prefer a global policy of fair trade where all companies that wanted to trade internationally are forced to abide by very strict rules regarding wages, benefits and working conditions for their workers.
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People dont want to pay higher taxes, so salaries should come down and many people would be financially wiser to move away from expensive areas, even out of state if need be.
During that first grocery strike 5-6 years ago, I commented that the clerks may be overpaid and a friend stated what is wrong with people making a living wage? BAM! Not making value judgements, just dry economic note. Well, all that will slowly change. With Walmart paying 8-10/hr, Vons cant keep paying 25/hr to their senior employees. Many State and federal employees with GED make 60-70K/yr after 15 years. Those easy entry high wage jobs are going away. But we still have overpaid public jobs such as admin in schools, Chula Vista salaries:
