Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Mitch McConnell Crashes u0026 Burns on IRS 'Scandal'" video.

  1. I agree that there are industries such as retail, where people work flexible hours because they are low skill. But none of the people enjoy knowing that they paid the bare minimum only because they can't be paid less. They don't enjoy no healthcare or holidays. Many don't enjoy only being offered part-time hours because their employers are not prepared to give them the rights that they would have to have if they were full time. They're already at rock bottom without you kicking them more.
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  2. Economies of scale have always harmed small business, even when there was NO work legislation. That's an argument for getting bigger, buying cheaper, or forming buying co-operatives so that you have more power over prices. Without legislation, bigger companies will STILL have more buying power and negiotiating power than you. Then what? Start complaining that you can't own slaves any more?
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  3. I can only assume that you are joking. Or have been living abroad somewhere without access to media for 6 years.
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  4. If you consider paying a living wage to an employee, and the same wage to a woman for doing the same job as a man as unreasonable, then you're noot really a very decent human being. If your business can't survive without using slave labour, then you need to change businesses.
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  5. You act as though all regulations must be applied uniformly. If government considers small business desireable, it can apply different rules at different employee or turnover brackets. But paying a reasonable minimum wage is a no-brainer, and if you didn't have an exploiter's mentality, you'd see it. YOU have a lot to learn about humanity.
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  6. I don't doubt that, but it's not an entry requirement like it seems to be in the Republican party. Since Obama got into power, I've never seen so much barely concealed simmering racial hatred. The American people should be outraged that their welbeing is being subverted at every turn by a party of religious, homophobic bigots that appears to have almost no ideas of their own, and operates purely on the principle of opposition to everything the president does.
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  7. If businesses can't afford to pay a livable wage, then they should get out of that line of work. There are two reasons why businesses can't operate paying a livable wage: 1. they have undervalued their productts and services in the name of competition. 2. They are undercut by countries with no minimum wage or safety legislation. That's an argument for regulating imports and charging a reasonable amount for your products. If a man does more, then pay him more - it's not the same job then is it?
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  8. Actually, the current rate of inflation is only 1.06% which is very low in the overall trend. The auses of inflation are wide ranging, but factors out of the government's control, such as the price of oil, play into it. But I do agree with your general point that there needs to be a shift in favour of individuals rather than banks and corporations.
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  9. It really is a disgrace that this is what US politics has come to. Is racism so endemic in the Replican party taht they have to stoop to this, oir is this simply a sign of a party so lost that they will go to any depths to try to gain a bit of leverage? Either, deeply pathetic.
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  10. That's not true. Is your fuel and food the same cost as your parents paid when they were young? No? Why not? Inflation. Inflation reflects (among other things) the increased cost of providing goods or services. Part of the reason is the continually increasing wage demands of those involved in it production and delivery.
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  11. The problem is that consumers have been educated to expect to live for cents. Dollar menu? You assume that there SHOULD be a dollar menu. The retail market shot itself in the foot a long time ago by contantly competing on price rather than value, and now this is where it's lead to. Just because people want the lowest prices possible doesn't mean that retail should continually decrease the cost of things. It's a moronic business model where only the big survive.
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