What a tool
You don't have to agree with them, just please can they stop being insane.
I lived in Arizona when Kyl and Flake were first elected. They were and still are small government socially moderate conservatives who were not and still are not crazy. I miss the days when the conservatives weren't insane. abcnews.go.com/Politics/jef...
Former Republican Sen. Jeff Flake endorses Kamala Harris on "This Week."
typography, no longer the art of making letters, now the art of writing tipoes
* One more option would be to take the increased tax revenue (preferably this would come from corporate tax) and use it for infrastructure and other national projects. We really need to avoid a rapid growth in discretionary income though, and it's coming.
... Or just save the money for people directly, by having the government contribute directly to IRAs, medical savings accounts, etc. ? I don't know. But this coming major economic change has the potential to be disastrous even though increasing productivity sounds "good."
... Will that improvement in services (as an example, child care benefits, and health benefits in general?) just free up disposable income as if wages grew and cause inflation anyway? * Encourage saving. Currently corporations hoard the cash. Why not employees instead? ...
Sometime reasonably soon that's no longer going to be tenable. Wages have actually grown in the past few years. Couple of ideas: * Improve the standard of living while controlling wage growth by increasing taxes by providing meaningful standard of living services with that new revenue ...
This increasing gap means more profit, and corporations have been soaking that profit up for all those decades rather than giving it to employees. That's "good" because wage inflation is bad, but the standard of living is also stagnated, and that's also bad. ...
Thinking about the come to Jesus era close on the US horizon where constantly growing productivity will eventually result in higher wages and lower employment... Productivity has increased steadily for over four decades while real wages have mostly stagnated...
