No one even moderately liberal will quarrel with any increase in the
minimum wage. Any small business owner-very much appreciated by the
community- should be entitled to tax breaks and government subsidies.
To be sure, the American working class collectively in this so
called democracy is strikingly separate and unequal in economic and
political power to the celebrated or despised ONE PERCENT. As Robert
Reich has pointed out in his book on Super Capitalism this obscene
inequality is destroying what is left of our American democracy.
Note that even a 15 dollar per hour minimum wage would not get a family
man decent housing in Rhode Island. We also need strict rent controls.
And why not just jail all those slum lords ?
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