Opinion Piece on the Income Gap and a potential solution

[Sherman A1]

Found this piece in the today's Christian Science Monitor. Sounded like the author has some good ideas on what is needed and what might be possible in reducing the income gap.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0124/p09s01-coop.html?s=hns

[pnorman]

1. Here's another by those two authors:

http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/67/24414

Thanks for alerting me to that. Google is helping me find more by them that ae well worth reading.

pnorman

[pnorman]

2. Another very good article by one of those authors:

Seattle Attorney Dmitri Iglitzin explains why NLRB is no friend of labor
Dec 11, 2006 - Miscellaneous

The balance of economic power has become increasingly one-sided, and one reason is that a key institution — the National Labor Relations Board, the country's chief arbiter of labor disputes — remains solidly in anti-worker hands. In case after case, the Republican-dominated board has taken positions that have hurt American workers. Seattle Labor Attorney Dmitri Iglitzin explains in an article in the Los Angeles Times Nov. 9.

WHILE President Bush points to low unemployment and a resurgent stock market as signs of a strong economy, most Americans don't feel so bullish. Median incomes are flat, healthcare costs are soaring, pensions are being de-funded and corporate employers are threatening to shred the social contract with their employees that has prevailed for 60 years.

The balance of economic power has become increasingly one-sided, and one reason is that a key institution — the National Labor Relations Board, the country's chief arbiter of labor disputes — remains solidly in anti-worker hands. Although a quasi-judicial entity appointed by the president and empowered to adjudicate labor disputes, the NLRB actually sets the rules that govern those disputes and thereby exerts an enormous influence over who prevails. In case after case, the Republican-dominated board has taken positions that have hurt American workers.
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http://www.shiftbreak.com/tools/blog.dwp?task=show_post&post_id=1353

pnorman

[Sherman A1]

3. Thanks for the links

Looks like Good Stuff! Of course really everything is just soooo "rosy" for us worker bees...... :sarcasm:

[Selatius]

4. This is not more passable than a simple tax bracket hike for the top 10 percent

The Repubs will role out the "class warfare" cart if Dems did that or passed what this guy is suggesting.

My advice in such a situation is to pass the tax bracket hike on the top 10 percent or 5 percent or just 1 percent. The Repubs will role out that cart anyway, so simply adopt the simplest maneuver.

[Rosemary2205]

5. Ronnie Reagan and his Congress already let pandora out of the box.

now that the Congress is bought and paid for by the rich guys there isn't going to be legislation to fix this, probably in my lifetime.

We are in an age of Robber Barons, and until it gets so bad that 40% of America is living in tents or in their old cars then I don't see anything changing. There just won't be the political will to do anything about it until it gets so bad that they are forced to do something.

Why Americans let it get back to this point even I have no idea.