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superpatriotman

(6,882 posts) Wed Jun 11, 2014, 01:16 PM Jun 2014

"wage rates...have to be related to productivity" - Dave Brat (teabag) [View all]

If so, the tables should be turned 180 degrees.

Laborers should be paid executive wages and vice-versa.

I have never worked for an executive who works as hard as a laborer.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/11/dave-brat-minimum-wage_n_5483980.html

Brat, from an interview with Chuck Todd:

TODD: Sounds like you're making a case against a federally mandated minimum wage.
BRAT: I'm just making the case I just made that you can't artificially make up wage rates, they have to be related to productivity.

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"wage rates...have to be related to productivity" - Dave Brat (teabag) [View all] superpatriotman Jun 2014 OP

Can we tie that to the House of Representatives? BuelahWitch Jun 2014 #1

How can they justify employment contracts with non-compete clauses? pnwmom Jun 2014 #2

Having been personally and directly involved in a non-compete litigation... MANative Jun 2014 #5

They are much more common these days. Even camp counselors may have them. pnwmom Jun 2014 #7

That's beyond insanity MANative Jun 2014 #9

You're reacting the same way I did. Yes -- this is enslaving. pnwmom Jun 2014 #13

I agree with him on that. kentuck Jun 2014 #3

He's a "free market' phony superpatriotman Jun 2014 #4

One chart I saw recently showed a 270% increase in worker productivity since 1982 MANative Jun 2014 #6

That is only a minimum wage of about $9 an hour. joeglow3 Jun 2014 #15

Wages as a percent of gdp are at an all-time low and the share that goes to the top 1 percent BeyondGeography Jun 2014 #8

Someone show the fool this chart, and tell him to get to work increasing minimum wage... Maedhros Jun 2014 #10

That's it! kentuck Jun 2014 #11

Probably some long, rambling diatribe superpatriotman Jun 2014 #12

Curious, what do you think that wage rates SHOULD be related to, if not productivity? nt clarice Jun 2014 #14