Forum Post: Here's what OWS Should Focus on
Posted 12 years ago on Oct. 9, 2011, 6:14 p.m. EST by kekeluvsyou2
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This is what I came up with. I think it's reasonable and it could happen.
- Propose Congress passes Obama's job bill.
- Propose that the corporations in this country pay their fair share in taxes; change the tax code
- Propose that corporations who send jobs overseas be required to pay a higher tax than the ones who keep jobs in America.
We need to give something to the political leaders so that they can do something - My suggestion is to write to them and let them know that we the people feel corporations have abused their 14th amendment rights and that they should be taken away from the corporate entity. - Look up how the 14th amendment applies to corporations, you'll see they have the same rights as an individual person!
I think it's a good place to start
We need to give something to the political leaders so that they can do something - My suggestion is to write to them and let them know that we the people feel corporations have abused their 14th amendment rights and that they should be taken away from the corporate entity. - Look up how the 14th amendment applies to corporations, you'll see they have the same rights as an individual person!
I think it's a good place to start
Only demand creates jobs. Companies are not hiring because they don't see the need to expand production. Not because they are "evil" like they would want us to believe. Now investing in public utility projects like construction may create a temporary demand. That might cause the companies to hire. This in turn will create more demand because the newly hired people will spend. At some point the economy could lift itself out of the recession. This is the theory behind stimulus spending. It hasn't worked that well in the past.
Snooze.
Good thinking, on a tactical basis. But, no sooner than the modest bank regulation bill passed, the lobbyists and their serfs in the House started dismantling and de funding them. I believe more important and urgent is to stop the money from corrupting the process. There are some things that can be done in the short term but it may take something that is hard to do (and and undo)) as a Constitutional Amendment.
1 and 2 yes. 3 sounds good in theory but how do you enforce it?
I dunno exactly cause I'm just a nurse. But I would imagine it would be another bill that has to go thru legislation.
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Jobs are voluntary arrangements between employers and employees. Government cannot "create" jobs, but it can facilitate the process of employers and employees' voluntarily contracting with one another. One such way of facilitation is to eliminate the minimum wage.
What is a "fair share" of taxes?
Eliminate the minimum wage? For what, so we can be like China and all those other Asian countries who work for practically nothing? I thinks not. I bet that would create jobs but we'd be living in a Ming Dynasty.
Would you rather work for "practically nothing," or not work and earn exactly nothing? Also, the Ming Dynasty is regarded as one of China's "three golden ages"; it was not one of China's dark ages.
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That all sounds good but it maybe too hard to outlaw lobbyist. Even unions lobby and they represent middle America
If it's too hard, we will rage harder.
I understand that there are parts of the current system that benefit the middle class and not just the top 1%, that doesn't mean the system is right.
WE ARE THE YOUTH AND WE DO NOT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT COMPROMISE.
A simple formula:
The Chairman of Intel said that it costs ONE BILLION more to open a plant here in the USA.
The American consumer buys computers based on price. So you ask Intel to raise their prices because they build their chips here and they lose their business to foreign competitors.
Thats capitalism. If your company can't survive then it'll fall.
Obama's job bill is a joke, it's basically more hand outs to corporations.
Taxes corporations more won't create jobs.
Why? How come an American deserves a job more than a Korean?