its also unions/govt pricing labour so high that they have no choice
poor, lazy people will always be jealous of people that work and have wealth and want free shit. its as certain as death and taxes.
I have no problem with private unions in any field at all. If a privately owned company believes that allowing their employees to become a union and they can pay the wages the unions are asking while continuing to stay in business, more power to them.
My beef with unions is when its taxpayer funded. I already have a major issue with any person being paid through the forced removal of money from the people in the form of taxes, but to give a union the power over the purse and demand that under no circumstance can we the people lower their wages or pensions, no matter how bad it is for the State, then i have a major problem with unions.
[Rant]
No matter how hard the progressives cover their ears, the pension tsunami is real and it will hit all the States hard. We are talking trillions of dollars promised to employees of the States that are, from what i can tell, almost impossible to renegotiate. These Statist union lackeys would rather see their respective State or the entire Nation collapse than to renegotiate their retirement contracts which for many of them, they paid little to nothing into.
"Oh but, we will just increase the taxes on the rich or on the corporations!" they say.
"Why are all the corporations moving to foreign nations? Trump is fucking us up! Bush fucked us up. Reagan started it, he's the one that fucked our nation by allowing corporations to move overseas!"
"Oh... look at how evil that alt-right nationalist is! He wants American companies to be in America. How racist of him! Doesn't he realize that 3rd worlders need jobs too?"
So the .00765% of the wealthy invite their favorite Statist corporate media outlet over to perform an interview of them, where they say we need to raise the taxes on the wealthy - on the 1%, when that is the WORST thing we can do. Contrary to popular Marxist/Progressive talking points, the 1% and 2% actually work for their money; they buy shit from us that keeps the economy going while its the .00765% that never see an increase in their taxes, they write the tax codes/laws and dont buy shit from us. I have read horror stories about the super elite going to restaurants and never paying for a single thing and tip like black people do. Hell, most of them no longer invest their money in our banks yet they are on the TV, crying about how the 1% are not taxed enough and the Marxists/Progressives believe them.
And whats going to happen when 75% of the population falls into the 2% due to the cost of living? There are countless Bay Area couples that fall into the 2% tax bracket due to the cost of living in the Bay Area and they live paycheck to paycheck. If we keep this up, the people in the 2% tax bracket are going to have to rent out rooms in order to pay their mortgage because they are taxed to death.
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That was interesting writing that out while i have classical Christmas music playing in the background.