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Old 03-14-2011 | 09:47 PM
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Originally Posted by FDXLAG
No argument, but every vehicle made has a cost associated with producing it. Quality, safety, reliability, and utility all add to the cost of a vehicle. When you are competing to sell vehicles and yours starts with a 5K price disadvantage due to retiree labor costs you might have to give up something in quality to compete in price. Same goes for taxes.
well then, perhaps you should give up YOUR retirement.

You seem to think that prosperity will come via lower wages for the working class. By your logic, if we cut our wage/benefit package in half...then we'd be twice as wealthy. If we gave it ALL back...by your logic, we'd all be wealthier than bill gates!

To some extent, this "trickle down" effect does work; the question is knowing when it actually makes society wealtheir and when it makes it poorer. I simply believe that allowing middle class wages to drop will do the later. And it is a slippery slope-once you go after the lower middle class, it isnt hard to go after the upper middle class, which of course includes YOU.

Have a nice evening!