What’s the incentive to work?
Stephen Derickson, in his letter in the May 5th edition of the Post Dispatch, said he was “incredulous that any pay differences based on anything other than length of service” still exist. How about things like productivity, hard work, creative thinking, skill set and dedication to the company? Shouldn’t these also factor into the amount one is paid? It is amazing to me that the writer believes length of service is the only criteria to be considered. What’s my incentive to work harder, to come up with creative ideas to improve a product or process, or to learn new skills that might be applied across a wider range of tasks if the only thing that matters is how many days I’ve been on the job? It’s thinking like this that has lost America the edge it once had in manufacturing and, in turn, has stifled the growth of the middle class.
Dave Cole
St. Louis
‘It’s thinking like this that has lost America the edge it once had in manufacturing and, in turn, has stifled the growth of the middle class’
This sentence to me is funny. We lost the American edge in manufacturing because corporations can get what they want done for far less in another land. Not because of work ethic. The day corporations moved most of our manufacturing overseas is when we lost our edge.
The share price means everything to these companies, they have no patriotic feelings whatsoever.
Hum… gonna side w/ Dave on this one. I’ve been on the receiving end of lazy - entitled - workers many times while working in the field. There’s simply not enough productivity for the cost in many (but not all or even a majority of) cases. My favorite example is one that I’m betting we’ve all seen over our lives: a line up of workers at the timeclock - eager to punch out at quarter to 5.
So, Ego,
You believe that the American worker is lazy?
A. Huxley once wrote that very few people are lucky enough to actually ‘work’, to be paid for something that you truly enjoy doing.
Most people are wage slaves, doing something they hate just for the money. Every employer in the world will pay you as little as they can get by with to keep you actually moving. Every wage slave will do as little work they can get by with to actually keep being paid.
Jellio,
What is your point??? Should everybody; regardless of skill, education, profession, etc… be paid the same??? This is America and not Europe. Europe isn’t doing so hot right now so why should our Prez follow that model? Lowering corporate taxes would bring business back to the US, create jobs, stimulate the economy, etc… The question isn’t “why are corporations moving over seas?” The question should be “Why don’t we create an incentive to keep corporations here in the US?” Lowering the absurd 36-40 percent tax rate would be a good start. The left claims that billions in taxes aren’t collected due to off shore corp’s. How about a modest 15% acros the board for everyone? I would wager that business would be inclined to invest in the US given the correct tax structure.
Lowering Corporate Taxes is not the answer. To many multi-billion dollar companys already pay less taxes to or country than you or I do.
Corporations don’t pay taxes; they pass that burden on to you and me through a higher priced product or service.
Lowering the corporate tax rate would lower the cost of the product thereby making our products and services more competitive in the market.
America has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the world and the Kenyan wants to raise it even higher. That will move MORE corporations overseas.
Corporations have a duty to bring a return on the investor’s investment. Hopefully they do so while being located in America; but if they are taxed too high, the corporation should move to a corporation friendly country.
Right now, Osama Hussein is turning America into a corporation hating country.
Who will invest in American corporations when the One throws out the rule of law and allows the UAW to take over a corporation? Secured creditors no longer are secured. What other companies is he going to take over and hand over to the Unions? His tactics are no different than Mussolini, Hitler, Chavez, Stalin.
Ya’ll called Bush Hitler but we have the real deal now.
tictac,
Which ones?
If we really want to level the playing field for the US to “compete in the global market” , why not lower the Corporate tax rate to the average of the global market rate? That would definately keep corporations here. How about something really radical,,,,,lower the tax rate to a level below the global average. We are still talking a 20-25% tax rate. They pay nothing as it stands now, if based off shore. Would that not entice even more corp’s to invest in the US??? The left should be jumping all over this. Think of all that tax money your missing out on!
Here’s the Chrysler fiasco in a nutshell, from CBS:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/07/politics/otherpeoplesmoney/main4997900.shtml
Read the comments. People are upset that Obama has undermined the secured creditors and gave Chrysler to the UAW. Seems like people are starting to wake up to the fact that Obama is going to turn America into Venezuela.