Re:U.S. Taxpayers Are Gouged on Mass Transit Costs
by don_draper on Monday September 17, 2012 @12:56PM
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>>Are you a big enough fan of the free market that you want to take away existing prohibitions on child labor?
No. In fact I'm voting for Obama because I think we're at risk of losing the middle class.
I wrote what I did because I don't think comparing public teachers to private sector jobs is an apples to oranges comparison, and partly because I like to play the devil's advocate ;)
Re:U.S. Taxpayers Are Gouged on Mass Transit Costs
by dalke on Monday September 17, 2012 @03:45PM
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Right. You're one of the people who claim to like the naive simplicity of the free market but have no idea how inhumane the free market actually is, and when asked to justify your beliefs you pull away and yell "psyche!".
Does the single non-union person have the free choice to work in a shop without being in a union? Do the other 150 people have the free choice to demand, as part of their work contract, a closed shop? Do the union members have the free choice to strike, should a non-union employee be working there?
In so-called 'right-to-work' states, the answer is that employees do NOT have the ability to require a union shop, and do NOT have the right to strike in that case. No one in those states has the ability to choose to work in a union shop, or even to buy from a union shop instead of a open shop.
Closed shops can appear in a free market. Laws prevent closed shops. The government has "chosen" the winner, and done so in favor of non-union businesses.
Are you a big enough fan of the free market that you want to take away existing prohibitions on union power?
For the matter, the free market allows child labor. It's those silly labor laws which prevent people from having the choice to send their children to work in the fields and bring in some money. Indeed, anti-truancy laws say that we don't even have the choice of letting the children stay home during the day.
Are you a big enough fan of the free market that you want to take away existing prohibitions on child labor?