They Just Don't Get It

The editorial board of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is socialist! Plain and simple! We all know this, or should. Their recent editorial about the "death tax" proves this point. Editorial: A cynical election ploy

They will throw the working poor a pay hike if, and only if, they can dish out yet more tax cuts to multimillionaires.

I've spouted my opinion on the minimum wage hike in a previous post, so I won't address it here. What I do want to "attack" is this:

By its deeds, Congress has shown which Americans it favors. It has cut the estate tax nine times, according to the count by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, while the minimum wage has stood pat. The Senate narrowly failed to come up with the 60 votes it needed for a 10th round of cuts. The minimum wage proposal may now lure new votes. It shouldn't. The tax cuts would be too harmful to the federal budget.

First off, it's NOT THEIR MONEY! The families who worked hard, saved, invested, and actually created jobs, deserve to keep more of their own money. What is so hard for anyone to understand? Harmful to the federal budget? How 'bout addressing a Congress, who for the past 40 years, have been spending like drunken sailors? Padding the pockets of their favorite pet projects doesn't help the budget at all, does it. Creating new, bigger and (cough) better buracracies cuts into the needed funds that the federal government was actually formed to address. You know, those pesky things like national defense, roads, little things like that.

Opposing a boost in the minimum wage does the poor no favors. States that have raised the wage have seen greater job gains in industries most affected than in the economy as a whole - not the job losses the naysayers predicted - research shows (including that of the Center on Wisconsin Strategy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison).

I hate to say it, but at this point, anything that comes out of Madison is questionable. Personally, I think the minimum wage should be raised, but not the amount that is proposed. (My reasons are addressed in the link provided above.) Why are large companies relocating in OTHER countries? "Labor is cheaper" would be the obvious reason. Don't get me started on unions!

Congress - Green included - has been overly generous to people who inherit their wealth and overly stingy to workers on the low end of the pay scale. It's about time Congress reversed that course.

I kind of get the feeling this person doesn't much care for Mark Green. Stingy? That's a "professional" for you. It's stingy to want to keep more of YOUR money!