I don't think the likes of BarbAra LEe have any idea what the plan is. They think money grows on trees (and they would be almost right). They only care about hanging on to their precious job. So saying things like that can perhaps garner some votes by all those people wishing they could get such a lucrative minimum wage. But the whole idea is a fantasy.
The problem with making everyone 'equal' like that is: you have commercial cleaners getting the same wage as, say, building inspectors. That system was tried by the Soviets, in the bad old days. It didn't matter if one was a professor at university or a labourer - all got the same wage. So simple, in terms of accounting and policy. Only what happened, was that nobody had any incentive to study for the more difficult jobs. Of course, that later meant forcing students to study to become doctors or teachers - and that had its own problems.
Even the Chinese are now figuring out that if you allow discretionary choice to individuals, they get markedly better productivity results.
I don't think the likes of BarbAra LEe have any idea what the plan is. They think money grows on trees (and they would be almost right). They only care about hanging on to their precious job. So saying things like that can perhaps garner some votes by all those people wishing they could get such a lucrative minimum wage. But the whole idea is a fantasy.
The problem with making everyone 'equal' like that is: you have commercial cleaners getting the same wage as, say, building inspectors. That system was tried by the Soviets, in the bad old days. It didn't matter if one was a professor at university or a labourer - all got the same wage. So simple, in terms of accounting and policy. Only what happened, was that nobody had any incentive to study for the more difficult jobs. Of course, that later meant forcing students to study to become doctors or teachers - and that had its own problems.
Even the Chinese are now figuring out that if you allow discretionary choice to individuals, they get markedly better productivity results.
Free market is pretty funny that way.