Conservative politically? Conservative fiscally? Conservative with the paprika?

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I'm conservative when it comes to money and the environment.

With the paprika.

Why are people any political ideology? Because they think it’ll work

Things that work don't need to change. Change for change's sake doesn't make any sense.

This is why I am here too.

I find it overpowering

Agreed, we should have lower income taxes and higher corporate and capital gain taxes.

Because conservatives are usually realistic and practical.

Because I'm not deranged and am normal

So fuck the poor? Good reason

Funny way to say you dont believe in science

Hungarian or Spanish? Smoked or not?

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Okay but how about this for a crazy idea: you earn a higher percentage of the product of your labour with less going to your bosses/stakeholders? And maybe you and your fellow labourers also get a greater say in how the workplace is organised?

Why are they entitled to the money he worked for?

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I should be more specific. I believe in conserving (protecting) the environment and conserving money (not blowing it all on wars, etc.)

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Sounds like you should just start your own business.

“I am a tariff man standing on a tariff platform."

And who's to say I don't run my own business and work for myself?

The myth that there are millions of people who prefer to be on welfare when they're capable of working has been around since the Reagan administration. Real welfare reform would taper benefits as people's earnings increased. Instead, to they cut off before people can be self sustaining, and conferences don't want to raise the minimum wage to make working for a living exceed the value of benefits. A permanent underclass is required, and oh yeah, let's marginalize people who don't fit the white heteronormative narrative.

Because a business owner wouldn't suggest what you just did.

I'd recommend googling "cooperative". There are plenty of them around the world.

Raising minimum wage would make everything more expensive by increasing a businesses costs. Then people on minimum wage still wouldn't be able to afford everything they wanted. It would be really difficult for small businesses.

Minimum wages shouldn't be a comfortable career. It should be used as a stepping stone. Gain experience and some marketable job skills so you can find better pay elsewhere.

I am familiar with the term, I don't believe it can be applied to every business.

Says the guy who wants the US government to house and feed every citizen.

Plenty of business owners have done just that, including Henry Ford.

Good for you, so did the rest of us

Because they choose to be. Next question.

My auntie is disabled and can't work. She lives in a piece of shit trailer that she is proud of. Without government assistance she would be on the street. I don't see it as entitlement but rather helping the less fortunate.

Ford Motor long term debt for the quarter ending September 30, 2022 was $84.279B, a 13.34% decline year-over-year.

Good for you. You learned how to copy and paste.

Now do you care to explain why that has fuck all to do with what I said?

It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living. Franklin D. Roosevelt

And the ceo's pay going from $30M annually to $47M hear no visible effect of process. Lol

And for every one of those that did, you can list one that did the opposite. Tim Cook of Apple cut his salary by 40% this year. Not a great argument.

I'm fiscally conservative and socially liberal. But when it comes to politics I am apolitical.

Minimum wage was meant to be a living wage. Here's FDR's inaugural speech about minimum wage (bolding added by me):

"In my Inaugural, I laid down the simple proposition that nobody is going to starve in this country. It seems to me to be equally plain that no business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By "business" I mean the whole of commerce as well as the whole of industry; by workers I mean all workers, the white collar class as well as the men in overalls; and by living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level-I mean the wages of decent living. Throughout industry, the change from starvation wages and starvation employment to living wages and sustained employment can, in large part, be made by an industrial covenant to which all employers shall subscribe."