What if the government sets everyone's wage?

Then you will know that freedom, liberty, and the free market have been quashed in favor of Communism.

Some people will do anything to get out of feeling responsible for themselves. That is not American!

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Obviously wages would be set however best suits the government.

A nightmare bottled.

That depends. There are many like @MollyMcGuire who feel government should have zero authority except to arrest criminals… excapt for those criminals who exploits others for commercial purposed. To them, even having a minimum wage is the sign of an authoritarian regime.

At the same time, taxation is likewise theft, so government cannot raise the money it needs to fund social programs help all people to have at least the minimum lifestyle that other nations consider “human rights”.

So basically, any system that interferes with the rich (or the ignorant who think they are merely temporarily disadvantaged millionaires) CANNOT work here in the US because there too many people that would fight it. Coincidentally, the same group that is against gun laws (often even registration) and already has a history of armed conflict with the US government and the majority of Americans who actually support having a system that forbids exploitation of those outside of nobility.

@SecondHandStoke That would mean that we’d all be rich enough to pay taxes. Wouldn’t that ease the tax burden on the wealthy?

Sounds like a great idea:

I can drive a Trabant, be defended by SCUD missiles and drink wood alcohol while I wait in line for cheese.

@SecondHandStoke Are you insinuating that the wealthiest nation of Earth doesn’t have enough wealth to keep it’s poorest people fed and sheltered? I’m looking at how many homes we have lying empty because so few can afford to spend $400k-4m on what my grandparents would’ve been able to buy outright for under $30k. I’m looking at the people earning ~$1200/mth in an area where “affordable housing” starts at $850/mth living not far from where two of the richest humans on the planet are.

There is nothing wrong with making people work to get above a subsistence level, but there is something wrong when may would rather have their boss drive a V-12 Mercedes instead of having to settle for a V-8 than feed starving children. Some might even argue that that’s close enough to genocide to make no difference; I think it’s merely fucked up.