LOW PAY IS NOT OK

You know, WalMart, Home Depot, Lowe's, CostCo and the entire low priced and low wage paying big box Chinese distribution houses would not exist if not for the greed and ignorant public that elects the politicians who use the process with impunity.

It is a vicious cycle.  You want these high paying wages for working in a place that only survives by providing low prices.  The same places that most of the people who get a government check frequent.  Without those discount warehouse full of Chinese imports, the person who is living on a fixed income would not be able to provide for themselves and their family.  in order for these places to provide the type of wages you want to see, the prices will have to increase, therefore putting a bigger burden on those in the lower income bracket, which will put a greater demand on the government to supplement their entitlements.

It is a vicous circle that is not so simple to fix.  Simply "paying" these people more money wil not rememdy the situation, since the rpices go up, and their buying power will decrease.

I too would like to see corporations such as Walmart who have a huge number of people who get governmental insurance have to help supplemnt that in some form, but again I do not have a clear cut answer and neither do any of the rest of these arm chair economists on here, yourself included.

But again, like I said, asking you to define "fair tax"  is as a legitimate task as asking someone to define "living wage". 

t if the government paid you more per head you could buy larger ships. Those ships require labor. Higher wages then become the cause for  a stronger  economy. it's the greed factor that just burns you ass up when someone else makes a buck. Typical repub thinking.

It is not "burning my ass" up for someone to make a dollar, that is the mirror you are looking at QD. As to your premise of the buying a bigger ship and hiring more people to sail it, are you not advocating government supplementation of the business? such as tax breaks and incentives?  because to me that is exactly what you are saying.  They do something similar in China. If a company is producing a product for sale here in the US and they need to do it cheaply, the government will supplement that's company's coffers to help pay employees so that the company can make it cheaper.

I personally think that you are conflicted and are cofused about what you want.  you think the ship needs to be bigger, but you want everyone on it to be captains or first mates and it does not work that way.  if EVERYONE on the ship invested their own money in buying it, equal parts, then they would all be entitled to help steer it, but that is not what happens.

Like I said, you are the one displaying jealousy about someone making a dollar, not me.  My ass is fine.