Liberalism Is Not Good for America (Economics)

I'm Reformist and I believe Liberalism is GOOD for America. I will follow my opponent's series of points and provide my viewpoint on them. Minimum Wage: The minimum wage today is 7.25 an hour. The proposed minimum wage by Obama is 10.10 an hour and by Sanders it is 15 an hour. (I support about a 12.50) Minimum wage jobs while they are the lowest earning jobs still need to provide a decent amount of income to live. According to the living wage calculator the minimum wage now is not a living wage. More than a 1/5 of children live in poverty and more than 40 percent of children live in low income families. If a person wants a family he should be able to support them using any job. Their quality of life may be bad but they should still be able to subsist of the money they receive. Something that is not happening today. First Point: Raising the minimum wage would not cause lost of jobs BUT lets just say it did so did slavery. In the 1800's millions of Africa Americans had no jobs and wandered around the country looking for jobs and the Southern slave owners didn't have any workers to pick cotton. Yet people still supported the decision even though it wasn't a financially sound decision. It was about what was right for the African Americans. This is about what's right for the worker. Even if we lose some jobs along we need to change the way we work. However! Raising the minimum wage would NOT cause a loss of jobs. According to the department of labor: "In a letter to President Obama and congressional leaders urging a minimum wage increase, more than 600 economists, including 7 Nobel Prize winners wrote, "In recent years there have been important developments in the academic literature on the effect of increases in the minimum wage on employment, with the weight of evidence now showing that increases in the minimum wage have had little or no negative effect on the employment of minimum-wage workers, even during times of weakness in the labor market. Research suggests that a minimum-wage increase could have a small stimulative effect on the economy as low-wage workers spend their additional earnings, raising demand and job growth, and providing some help on the jobs front." Business cant afford the minimum wage? Again according the Department of Labor "A July 2015 survey found that 3 out of 5 small business owners with employees support a gradual increase in the minimum wage to $12. The survey reports that small business owners say an increase "would immediately put more money in the pocket of low-wage workers who will then spend the money on things like housing, food, and gas. This boost in demand for goods and services will help stimulate the economy and help create opportunities." Prices would increase but only by 4.3 percent. As for the constitutionality of the minimum the case that went to the supreme court to decide this was rejected as in the Supreme court did not even want to bother with such an open and close case. Poverty: It is actually proven that increasing the minimum wage would lift many out of poverty according to the department of labor the reason for poverty is not because people don't work its because children are born into poverty and lack education opportunities. And wow look the ideology that supports more affordable education is liberalism. Sources: http://webapps.dol.gov... http://livingwage.mit.edu... http://www.dol.gov... https://www.purdue.edu... http://www.natlawreview.com... http://www.dol.gov... Now onto your 2nd argument: With higher taxes come higher incomes. Low taxes actually leads to low wages. http://www.usnews.com... If you look at the graph the liberal states are generally the states that have a high tax rate BUT have also higher income while the states that were conservative had huge tax rates compared to their low wages. I don't understand why taxes are immoral. Taxes are money you pay to the government but under conservatives you will never see that money ever again. But with liberals you can see your investment aka free college and health care. According to your standpoint we should have taxes. A man can yell that any taxes is an initiation of force. No taxes? Good luck with that. Also tax cuts lead to economic growth? That's a lie and its actually the opposite http://www.nytimes.com... While the middle class already pays their fair share the rich do not. In this graph you will see why we need higher tax rates for the rich https://www.bing.com... Government regulation of business is to stop the idea of monopolies. If there is just one monopoly then consumers have no choice. I really don't understand how this is a bad idea. Thanks to the government we have price ceilings where a price cannot exceed a certain point. If we didn't have this gas may be 12 dollars a gallon if all the oil industries got together. So thanks to the government we save money. When it comes to quality over quantity when it comes to social programs it doesn't matter. The amount of homeless people in the US: 2.3 to 3.6 million The amount of people less homes: millions when not even counting ones for rent Sometimes people cant afford things so they need the government In a liberal society everyone lives their life how they want to and the needy are met with needs Sources: http://www.usnews.com... http://www.usnews.com... http://www.nytimes.com... https://www.bing.com... http://www.pbs.org...