Why government and non-profit employees can't make a modern economy

So you won't be expanding into any Right to Work states... (4.00 / 1)

...anytime soon, where wages and per capita wealth is minuscule compared to the socialistic policies found here in MA.  

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by: Simple J. Malarkey @ Fri Aug 03, 2012 at 22:13:48 PM UTC

Individuals should be coerced to join an organization? (0.00 / 0)

and possibly support politics and policies they don't support.

What auto companies are prospering and growing in the US, the non-union shops in the south.

Wages vary by company and geographic region, making exact comparisons difficult. Average labor costs - wages and benefits - for the unionized Detroit automakers and nonunion Toyota's U.S. plants are about the same at $55 an hour, according to the Center for Automotive Research. But the rest pay less; nonunion Honda pays about $50 an hour. Nissan, Hyundai and Kia are at about $45.

http://articles.latimes.com/20...

To quote an ex-governor - this are good jobs at good wages.

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by: roarkarchitect @ Sat Aug 04, 2012 at 12:45:08 PM UTC

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Dishonorable (5.00 / 1)

lying loser speaks again!!

I could live the same on less than half of what I need in MA.

My mortgage would be less than half what it is here.  My property taxes would plummet.  Don't think so??  I've been looking into NC and I can get more house for less than half what mine is...at a lower property tax rate.  
Hell, I could rent a sweet 2br for what I pay in property taxes up here.

AND my salary would drop by an average 8%.

Tell me again how taxing a business more gets them to hire people they don't need to hire.....

"I acknowledge having racist and classist and sexist feelings of white male superiority." -John Howard

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by: ElectricStrawberry @ Sat Aug 04, 2012 at 13:03:05 PM UTC

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The unequal make the best customers (0.00 / 0)

I have sold in states across the country, including Texas.

It's not the income, it's the rate of expansion versus house, car, insurance costs. For example any increase we have had in income has gone into buying family insurance over the past ten years. And then everything costs between 30-100% more than it did ten years ago.

I have a few buyers who are doctors but even they aren't the best, they seem to feel squeezed too.

The customer who is doing better than average is truly motivated to buy. Attacks on inequality hurt the producers of high-end goods.  

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by: seascraper @ Sat Aug 04, 2012 at 17:04:02 PM UTC

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Interesting comment... (0.00 / 0)

"Attacks on inequality hurt the producers of high-end goods."

For all his faults, Henry Ford understood the value of paying his factory worker a good wage so that they could afford to buy the cars they built.  This was the seeds to out modern middle class.  

Today, you are among those that turn your back on an economy that thrives on people building products that they can buy, to one in which we build products that only a few can afford.  

Of course your rhetoric overstates everything...like you use of the word "inequality".  Yes, there are people like me that advocate for similar taxes rates that were in place less than 15 years ago--tax rates that existed during a booming economy--which fueled the rise of luxury goods that you sell.  Given the huge growths we saw under that tax rate, balanced against the need to lower the deficit, it is a reasonable position.  You may not agree with that position, but to suggest my position is an "attack" is baseless and frankly an intellectually juvenile position to take.  

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by: Simple J. Malarkey @ Sun Aug 05, 2012 at 14:19:38 PM UTC

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