Oregon gas tax and minimum wage going up?
My neighbor saw an article about Oregon raising their gas tax by $1.00 per gallon AND raising the state minimum wage to $15.00 per hour! If so, this will really cost RVrs and others big time, no...
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irishtom29 wrote:
The so called "science" of economics is often merely an effort to convince the working class that what's good for them is bad for them. Thus we get Irishtom's Laws of Economics---
My raise is a result of merit, your raise is a result of greed.
My raise benefits the economy, your raise causes inflation.
I'm better off with more money but you're better off with less.
I'm overworked, you're overpaid.
My job takes great skill, anyone can do your job.
Value hard work until you have to pay for it.
When investors and businessmen band together in corporations and trade groups to further their economic interests it's free enterprise, when workers band together in unions to further their economic interests it's communism.
There are no social class political issues in America.
Like any science where statistics are heavily involved certain positions can be manipulated based on the desired outcome one wishes to present. All economics strive to achieve the same end. But there are multiple ways to arrive at that goal and that is where the debates will rage on. That is what makes our country great. We have the luxury to debate and implement different paths to achieve the same end. Unlike a true communist economy where the end may be the same but who has a say to that means is dramatically different.
