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Originally Posted by Justme
So you want to take the money from MLB players and give it to the minor league umpires? You consider it the job of the MLB players to pay for the training of the umpires? Since you earn money from the sport of baseball maybe you should also pay a 1% tax on your earnings, isn’t that what your logic dictates?
While I support every person’s right to make as much money as they can it still boils down to a few basic things:
1. How important is their job to the industry? This is determined by the industry.
2. What is the supply and demand? Are there 1000’s of people trying for a couple of hundred jobs?
This is not a necessary correct. Paying someone more money doesn't make them better employees. If you double the minimum wage would you get your fries faster at the local fastfood joint?
I guess its shame, shame on me. I don't agree with you that the MLB players owe the umpires a living. I built a business without anyone giving me 1% of their salaries and there were years when I brought home less than these umpires do.
They are apprentices. They are in the minors learning their trade. To my understanding working in the minor leagues is not meant to be the end of a career path, it’s the beginning. Sometimes you have to make sacrifices to reach your goals.
IMHO your plan hints of Socialism.
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Double the minimum wage and you'll cut in half the problems you have in the Drive-thru.
You built your business, not by retaining 1% of your employees' wages, but by keeping as much as you could while still being able to hire workers. Your "tax" was, as you know, far more than one percent.
My plan hints of socialism? Let me tell you socialism: medicare, defense, social security, homeland security, roads, levees (except in New Orleans). My plan does not scatter the money over the general populace.
And besides, if socialism is so bad, why is it built into the fabric of society everywhere? Remember
Star Trek II: The good of the many outweighs the good of the few or the one.