Ok, point. Taxes are expensive for large corporations and are a larger expense than the employees alone.
It's still cheaper to produce goods in another country with low taxes AND low wages than just low taxes.
lol, well, of course.
I was trying to highlight the fact that minimum wage laws are just one (small piece) of the outsourcing puzzle. When you're thinking about companies that are large enough to send operations over seas, and still maintain market share domestically, you're talking about billion dollar corporations.
If you care about domestic jobs, and don't want to enrich the corporations and banks large enough to send jobs over seas, then you should support floor-level taxes and zero minimum wage laws. You'd see an economic explosion (of a good kind) in the US.
You mean the minimum wage laws that allow us to maintain a specific standard of living?
Are you aware that, when there wasn't a minimum wage law, people, including whole families, would work at a factory and live in company housing, just to survive? That the conditions were horrible and not fit for any human being? And you want to go BACK? What kind of person are you who feels that slave labor is better? Or do you feel that companies would pay their workers ABOVE minimum wage without a minimum wage law?
And floor taxes...
Well, if we did that, we'd have to cut out most social programs just to keep the military funded.
That means no public schools.
No public roads.
No Medicare/Medicade.
No Unemployment.
No Police department.
No Fire department.
No EPA.
No FDA.
So let's see...
On your low wage you'd have to pay tolls for traveling on the road as they'd be privately owned and funded and thus would require some kind of profit to be made.
You'd have to pay for school for your kids, which can cost as much as college tuition, ie. $8,000+ each year for 12 years.
If you got hurt and couldn't work, you'd be dead. No money, no food, no hope.
If you lost your job, you might have many opportunities for other, low wage paying jobs. I mean let's face it, $1.50/hour is the same no matter where you work.
If you got robbed, you'd have to pay for the police work, which would probably be as much as s visit to the Hospital. And they'd charge by the day.
If your house caught fire, the only hope is the community helping to put it out with buckets like they used to.
The environment would be trashed as no one would be there to stop anyone from doing whatever they like. We'd lose the many species we come to know and love, the wonderful parks we like to walk in, and everything would smell and look like New Jersey.
Drugs would be much cheaper but carry a much higher risk of death. After all, dead men tell no tales so who would know?
I'm sorry if you feel that the world is capable of self regulation but it isn't. Humans are too damn selfish to care about each other, let alone the greater good. Most people will first ask "what's in it for me" before asking "Will it help anyone". And those who are better at something will rise to the top, crushing those underfoot until you have the peasant class and the royalty, thus ensuring that the middle ages will live again.
In fact, I'd like to ask you a question:
In a general sense, who is more important: You or someone else?