(01-14-2019, 05:42 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: Regarding Social Security, it should have been privatized a long time ago... even prior to the President George W. Bush administration talking about it.  Take a look at how much you have paid into it over the course of 1 year and imagine how much that would be worth even at a low interest rate.  Multiply that over the course of your working career and you end up with a much higher figure.  The bottom line is, people, not the government should be responsible for saving for their own retirement.

Minimum wage and maximum working hour laws should be done away with and let the free market sort it out.  Government has no business telling private businesses what to do or how much to pay.

I'm with you on the first part, not so much the second. Those laws exist because wages and hours were left for the free market to figure out, and it resulted in the majority of Americans getting screwed. The modern idea that minimum wage should be a living wage is ridiculous, but there should be a minimum wage in place to protect smaller towns with few employment options. If Walmart cuts its wage scale in Jacksonville so that cashiers get $5 an hour, Walmart's going to have problems because those cashiers are going elsewhere. If a Walmart in a small town with few other employment options cuts cashier pay to $5/hour, cashiers are screwed because there isn't really anywhere else to go.

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