This song still seems to be true.

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Things have certainly changed. And, not for the better. Last week, I ran a series about wages in America. (I also have a Kindle and a paperback with even more such thoughts available for your reading pleasure.) Corporations are not paying living wages, expecting the middle class to subsidize their profits by providing the funds for food stamps, welfare, and Medicaid for their low-paid staff. It is obvious this is true, since the middle class and the lower class provide more than 1/2 the total federal receipts, with corporations barely providing 10%.

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This is a drone of another sort…

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Most of you know that I used to be an academic.  Or, maybe I should say that I used to be a professor first and an entrepreneur/consultant second- because I’ve been accused of being an academic forever.  Because I want to study everything.  And, I tend to lecture (or get on my soap box) often.

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Living Wages. The End of the Discussion- for now.

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This is the fifth and final segment in this mini-series on minimum wage, living wages, the middle class, and taxes that I started this year, beginning on 7 January 2014.

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Living Wages. The Very Bottom Line.

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Here in the DC area, we are about to engage in a new kind of experiment.  The minimum wage in the Maryland suburbs is going up to $ 11.50 an hour.  As it will be in the city of DC.  But, in Northern Virginia, the minimum wage will be the Federally mandated one of $7.25.  Do you really think the jobs will leave the northern suburbs and move to Virginia?

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Living Wages- Take 3

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So, we’ve talked (this is the 3rd part in the daily series about current economics) about who is funding the US treasury.  Mostly workers, which surprised most of you.  Mostly the poor and the middle class, which clearly confounded you.  (Remember- it’s payroll taxes that provide about 45% of the federal take, and the income taxes of the non-rich provide another 15% of the federal take.  The rich (top 10%) provide 30% of the annual federal receipts via income taxes and corporations finish off the totals by contributing about 10%.)

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