Aalana Kane

[QUOTE=Aalana Kane;12134977]Tinyhands has zero comprehension of how the US Middle Class grew post WWII and that business formation was vastly larger when you grow the middle class. 80% of the US population is being pushed towards poverty, while the 1% is moving towards owning 50% of the entire net worth of the US. Bad economics and totalitarian oligarchy are not acceptable no matter how many screech about paying taxes while ignoring they are the beneficiaries of an economic system...not just floating around on their own private island.


.... I understand ppl are concerned about over-reach on the part of the government. How do you feel about very large corporations writing legislation that benefits them at the expense of employees and consumers? That seems like corporate over-reach to me. A free market is obviously not the answer; there's a solid case to be made that it's actually the root of the problem. Since we don’t have a free market. Corporations definitely have their hands in the government cookie jar ever since trickle down economics was first proposed as the model for US financial policy, the rich have gotten richer and the middle class has nearly disappeared. So what is the solution? Are giant corporations andt he 1% going to start taking less profit out of the goodness of their hearts? How are wages going to regain the purchasing power they once had when corporate tax was several times higher than it is now? Are companies going to pay a living wage if their competitors do not? Capitalism has gotten to the point where greed rules over all and the greedy are not going to become spontaneously more generous. We do need regulation, and Don't blame the average worker or say the just want handouts. The big corporations are the ones to blame for being so greedy for do long...they are bringing this on themselvesm

Regulation has brought workers : Minimum wage, for instance... if we didn’t have minimum wage, I’m pretty sure there would be workers out there still making 67 cents an hour. Businesses have proven time and time again that they’re not always looking out for the people that work for them. That’s why we have standard work day, overtime pay, workers comp, disability, OSHA and other safety regulations, etc. Not to mention... business had to be restricted from child labor cuz they used to do that Too....

That’s why I support Elizabeth warren new legislation.

All You small business owners can STFU before you even get started because this has to do with “SHAREHOLDERS” - if you have these then you can worry cause you’d be a CORPORATION then wouldn’t you - the opposite of a small business. If you are a publicly traded company (meaning you sell stock in your company on any of the Wallstreet stockmarkets) then you fall under government SEC regulations. Sen Warren’s proposal affects only publicly traded companies in which she is proposing publicly traded companies provide more transparency to their workers. This allows the workers to have a say in the health and welfare of their jobs/company and not just stockholders and a very secretive board.

Privately owned companies aren’t included in this.


If done correctly and uncorrupted this could strengthen the middle class and boost the economy (and the business owners and share holders will still make their money because the middle class will be spending it); more taxes from middle class spending into the system to go toward education and other civil needs; and get the supper corporations out of the government from lobbying against their smaller competition (so smaller businesses will flourish). This will only strengthen small business and the middle class. We have never experienced a time where so few have had control of so much and it’s hurting the country as a whole, we need to adjust and adapt. Not asking for a hand out, but when Walmart comes in and shuts down the Mom and pop businesses and you have no where else to shop you have no power with how you spend your money and capitalism dies - that’s where we’re at now.


Government run businesses is communism. Business run government is fascism; basically what we have in the US right now. Who do you think owns/controls the US government? The 1%. The entitled big corporations who only see a free for all. They don't want to pay taxes after using our country's resources and they don't want to pay employees livable wages so they can park millions or billions in over seas accounts. At some point you will collapse the "Consumer Economy" because there’s No money in the pockets of the worker... it’s all over seas

Why don’t corporations ,civilians citizens , and the government sit down and have a “social” conversation[/QUOTE]