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Letter to the Editor of the WASATCH WAVE (Utah)
Editor: Here's the problem with the Equal Pay bill being considered by the Utah Legislature... Traditionally men have earned more than women in the workplace because they are considered the primary breadwinners for families. They need to make enough to support their families and allow the Mother to remain in the home to raise and nurture the children.
If businesses are forced to pay women the same as male earnings, that means they will have to reduce the pay for the men they employ... simple economics. If that happens, then men will have an even more difficult time earning enough to support their families, which will mean more Mothers will be forced to leave the home (where they may prefer to be) to join the workforce to make up the difference.
And as even more women thus enter the workforce that creates more competition for jobs (even men's jobs) and puts further downward pressure on the pay for all jobs... meaning more and more Mothers will be forced into the workforce. And that is bad for families and thus for all of society.
It's a vicious cycle that only gets worse the more equality of pay is forced upon us. It's a situation of well-meaning intentions, but negative unintended consequences.
We should encourage our Legislators to drop the whole notion. Let the marketplace determine what free-market forces should prevail. It is not the role of government to dictate to businesses what they should pay anyway... either as a Minimum Wage or Equal Pay for men and women.
James C. Green
Wasatch Co. GOP Vice-Chair
http://www.wasatchwave.com/view/full_story/27364685/article-Letters-to-the-Editor-2-15-17?instance=special%20_coverage_right_column
AuntPatsy
(9,904 posts)Delmette2.0
(4,165 posts)Fuck that!
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)Oh wait, was it
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mary-tyler-moore-tackled-the-wage-gap-on-her-show-back-in-1972_us_58890e0ee4b061cf898c867b
cant get the gif to work
sarah FAILIN
(2,857 posts)1960
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)Else You Are Mad
(3,040 posts)Doesn't beat his wife.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)not when (I would say billionaires, but they are beyond that) gazillionaires (it's not even a word..yet) run the world.
Croney
(4,661 posts)He sounds like a real Mother to me.
moda253
(615 posts)How fucking hard is it for these people to realize this?
mythology
(9,527 posts)Clearly caring for children is on the X chromosome so us men just aren't equipped to handle it.
irisblue
(32,978 posts)WhiteTara
(29,718 posts)they are merely "hosts."
Another state has women's health headed by the agricultural department.
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)There's a reason corporations are profitable. If a man's pay gets lowered, on the pretext of women's pay equity, the man that believes that is the reason is a fucking sucker.
leftstreet
(36,108 posts)mcar
(42,334 posts)At least in this moron's mind.
lame54
(35,292 posts)Since women stay at home and don't work
They shouldn't get equal pay when thay are at work
Wait - what?
Squinch
(50,950 posts)can't make it in the world without someone's thumb on the scale won't be able to feel superior.
And women who don't subject themselves to men won't starve, and their children won't starve.
And they think everyone should understand their feelings that this is bad.
"as more equality of pay is forced upon us."
logosoco
(3,208 posts)I would like to send out a special "fuck you" to this man.