Quote:On this whole wealth/welfare thing I have a suggestion.

 

Start capping off the CEO, corporate pay rates, bonuses, increases based upon how many of their employees file for goverment assistance each year.

 

ie Walmart. If the CEO makes a annual salary 26 million a year, and 60% percent of his employees at brick and mortar stores/warehouses make poverty wages, deduct that from his pay at the end of the year.

 

I'm sorry but your idea is flawed on so many levels I just don't even know where to start or if your serious. 

 

Assuming your serious here's the problems with taking CEO income and "redistributing" his income to lower income workers. 1st of all there's nothing wrong with offering low wage low skill employment so penalizing an individual for offering remedial jobs and that's what walmart is a remedial job even in management only incentives them to eliminate the remedial jobs. You already are seeing a move towards the "self-check out" future. 

 

that's what you've seen with the ACA, the law says anyone working more than 30 hours in a company of 50 employees or more will either be given coverage or the company penalized, so the companies said ok if we can't get under 50 employees we will hire double the employees and put them all at 29 hours.

 

Once again shuffling money around so it distributed more evenly accomplishes nothing, it produces nothing. 

 

As for Israel I'm a firm supporter of Israel. I believe they are perfectly within their rights to defend themselves, however we can not spend money we do not have. There is nothing noble or honorable about compromising our future to ensure the future of another nation. If Israel wants the United States to be around in 20 year's they'll understand right now we have to fix our mess at home. 

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