No ubiq you sidestepped my question
My point is simply this.
Before the government gets free with my money by upping my workers salary so that he has more money in his pocket, let them free him from any taxes on his salary. I’m English we call that put your money where your mouth is.
When they make me give my worker more money, they also get a raise, effectively they are giving themselves a raise. And they are by far the richest “corporation “in New York.
If they were actually concerned about the poor workers take home pay, the first step would be to free him from his entire tax burden. Then you can move forward from there, perhaps raising the minimum wage also.
But to just force an employer to pay more while at the same time continuing to stick your hands into, and now deeper into, the pocket of the very person you claim to be trying to help, is blatant hypocrisy.
Additionally, not every employer can afford to give his workers a 25% raise.
My point of the ice cream parlor was not an economic point.
It’s to point out the injustice of the legislation on a human level.
You have a mega wealthy entity (government) that gets its money through force (rule of law + threat of punishment)
Telling someone who got his money through others voluntarily surrendering it to him (luxury voluntary purchases aka ice cream)
The following :
Mr worker doesn’t have enough money at the end of the week. Give him more.
Now let’s remember the law applies to all employers including those whose businesses are barely profitable.
I ask you, is that not backwards? Immoral?
Shouldn’t the one who has more money, and got their money through force, without doing anything to deserve it, and is the one claiming to be bothered by the injustice of paying someone what they agreed to, be the one to fork over the extra money???
But no. Tell the guy who got his money by people happily “donating “(meaning voluntarily paying for his merchandise) it to him ,
You pay more while we sit pretty and collect even more now from the guy we claim to be worried about.
BTW why would I be against WIC Food stamps et al …?