re: Something the other party has right ?

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I like the proposition from Bernie to require Amazon to pay a wage high enough that employees aren't on federal welfare programs, allow that money to come from the company, rather than the Government subsidizing the people.

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It's almost as if when you create these welfare programs, you subsidize what employers have to offer with their wages.

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I'm more of a free market libertarian than most, but I've got a serious problem with major corporations like Walmart and Amazon whose entire business model relies on hiring part time employees and paying wages that are artificially suppressed due to available government subsidies. If they could get away with hiring their workers as independent contractors, they'd probably do that just to save a few more pennies.

At this point, if we are going to implement a realistic federal minimum wage, it needs to be indexed to inflation, and we should tighten up the part-time loophole for benefits, etc.

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Something the other party has right ?

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Decriminalization of weed. I can't comprehend why the party of smaller government has such a hard-on for continuation of the failed War on Drugs. Legalize it all, tax it appropriately, and move on to real problems.