1. Support a $15 an hour minimum wage. What's more conservative than opposing government handouts to businesses that pay their employees so little that they have to take advantage of food stamps and other government programs in order to make ends meet?
Doesn't work that way. Higher min wage is associated with lower levels of employment, lower labor efficiency, and higher entitlement spending. More of an incentive to work, to improve skills, and to stick with a job that one already has (lower turnover and hence lower training costs). Add to that, those with higher pay are able to spend more.
Unions have no acquitted themselves as being agents of the employees they represent. Their mission statement cannot overcome their recent history. [/quote]
Corporate America hates unions. Without unions it would be able to hire spies to investigate workers to see if they have vulnerabilities to exploit in allegedly one-on-one 'negotiations' that better resemble a troika than a real negotiation.
Much of Corporate America would be perfectly happy to return to near-starvation pay for people compelled to work to exhaustion.
The marginal tax rate is 100% for workers who do not eclipse the minimum income threshold. The current system is nearly as bad. Expanding the problem is not a solution, and no one wins if we continue pandering to the know-nothings.[/quote]
The question may not be so much whether we can afford it as whether we can't.
More conservative and liberal is creating an economy where the mother can choose to remain at home, if she is so inclined. [/quote]
Ideally a husband's income is strong enough to allow that.
Women with equal education and experience are paid the same as men. The "pay gap" is a fictitious construct, exploited by amoral politicians who wish to disparage women for sacrificing compensation to have stable careers with lots of flex time (e.g. teaching).
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In government agencies and to some extent in corporations with bureaucratic methods of setting compensation based on merit.
