Padawanbater2
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"Leftists desperately wish that reality didn’t exist. Nowhere is that truer than in the field of economics, where the geniuses of the left think that their arbitrary definitions of “fairness” should steamroll the actual realities of the marketplace. Their latest sally into the marketplace comes via a Labor Department ruling that Americans must receive time-and-a-half if they make under $47,476 per year and work more than 40 hours per week.
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan stated, “This regulation hurts the very people it alleges to help. Who is hurt most? Students, non-profit employees, and people starting a new career…For the sake of his own political legacy, President Obama is rushing through regulations – like the overtime rule – that will cause people to lose their livelihoods.”
This, of course, was not the headline for Yahoo. The headline was, “House Speaker Paul Ryan ‘Committed to Fighting’ New Overtime Rule.”
He’s not fighting unemployment. He’s not fighting bad economics. He’s not even saying that the regulation “hurts” people. No, he’s standing against American workers.
This is how the left wins. They declare something unfair, pretend that government can fix it, and then use the power of government to ram through some regulation that exacerbates the problem itself. Then they declare the problem unfair and begin the cycle all over again.
The only way to fight this strategy is to call such rules what they are: deliberate attempts to interfere with liberty of contract. It’s a quaint notion these days of Hillary “fairness” and Trumpian insta-solutions, but liberty of contract prizes freedom over any third party arbiter’s interference in a business relationship. Until conservatives re-educate Americans about such basic concepts, we may be doomed to decades more bad regulations driving up the cost of doing business and putting laborers out of work."
When the reality is, this will help more than 4.5 million people;
"4.5 million millennials will directly benefit from the Obama Administration's new overtime rule, which lifts the wage threshold for who qualifies to receive overtime pay (see below, from new study by Economic Policy Institute). Republicans in Congress want to repeal it. Don't let them."
Why would anyone support working more than 40 hours a week but not receiving fair compensation for it? Why does Ryan think people outside the republican party are stupid enough to fall for his bullshit? What's your opinion on Obama passing this executive order to ensure fair compensation for workers who work more than full time and make less than $47K?
Speaker of the House Paul Ryan stated, “This regulation hurts the very people it alleges to help. Who is hurt most? Students, non-profit employees, and people starting a new career…For the sake of his own political legacy, President Obama is rushing through regulations – like the overtime rule – that will cause people to lose their livelihoods.”
This, of course, was not the headline for Yahoo. The headline was, “House Speaker Paul Ryan ‘Committed to Fighting’ New Overtime Rule.”
He’s not fighting unemployment. He’s not fighting bad economics. He’s not even saying that the regulation “hurts” people. No, he’s standing against American workers.
This is how the left wins. They declare something unfair, pretend that government can fix it, and then use the power of government to ram through some regulation that exacerbates the problem itself. Then they declare the problem unfair and begin the cycle all over again.
The only way to fight this strategy is to call such rules what they are: deliberate attempts to interfere with liberty of contract. It’s a quaint notion these days of Hillary “fairness” and Trumpian insta-solutions, but liberty of contract prizes freedom over any third party arbiter’s interference in a business relationship. Until conservatives re-educate Americans about such basic concepts, we may be doomed to decades more bad regulations driving up the cost of doing business and putting laborers out of work."
When the reality is, this will help more than 4.5 million people;
"4.5 million millennials will directly benefit from the Obama Administration's new overtime rule, which lifts the wage threshold for who qualifies to receive overtime pay (see below, from new study by Economic Policy Institute). Republicans in Congress want to repeal it. Don't let them."
Why would anyone support working more than 40 hours a week but not receiving fair compensation for it? Why does Ryan think people outside the republican party are stupid enough to fall for his bullshit? What's your opinion on Obama passing this executive order to ensure fair compensation for workers who work more than full time and make less than $47K?
