Of course, but the idea that it's okay for someone to work full time and yet not make enough money to live above the poverty line is unacceptable. That's not 'government meddling', that's 'worker exploitation'. And, it's destructive to the economy and to the country. Or, would you prefer to support vast numbers of workers needing government assistance- another form of corporate welfare- instead?
I appreciate your sentiment and concern for low income workers. It is a real issue for many people to simply survive and it concerns me too.
However I think you might dig deeper to the root causes. The root cause problem isn't the exploitation of workers, that is a symptom of a greater problem which creates those conditions. It is very important to distinguish between a symptom and a root cause when problem solving. Asking the creator of a problem to participate in solving the problem is usually not a good answer either. So, government "solutions" are just blather and diversions and frankly bullshit.
Intense government regulations and restrictions have created higher costs of housing, which is a big part of a lower income persons expenditures. Those costs help keep low wage earners on the treadmill or if they've given up, as millions have, on the oxymoronic thing known as "government aid" I won't now, but I can defend the argument that government has negatively affected housing costs via restrictions and helped create many problems.
Intense government regulations have also hugely diminished opportunity for small trades, crafts and other entrepeneurial (sic) expressions. Barriers to entry for starting a business and cronyism work hand in hand to keep it going for "them" and work against "you".. I could go on and on here and point out in nearly every aspect of life, social, work, monetary and banking, travel, etc. how those regulations have negatively affected the average persons ability to gain independence, create wealth and security for themselves and their families.
I could also harsh on the military industrial complex too, but I'll save that for another time.
I do not support any coercively funded "assistance" as part of a system...it's a trap in lots of ways. That is not a solution, it is a move with political motivations to keep the system churning. They throw bread in the crowds to keep the peasants from storming the castle. The good peasants are taught to hope someday they might have a "good government job" and that the wild and dangerous economy is a function of government to tame. Couldn't be further from the truth, but it perseveres.
I support truly freeing the market to unchain people and take down the monopolies on power, production and freedom. Lower costs, innovative products and services will result and people will have more chances in life to attain or follow that which is important to them as an individual.
I do not defend "crony capitalism" when I speak of a truly free market either, they are not the same thing. What exists today, crony capitalism, creates opportunity for select groups at the expense of others backed by a gun. I reject that. Crony capitalism needs government and government (in the present form) needs crony capitalism....they don't need freedom though, it scares the shit out of them.
A truly free market creates opportunity, lots of them, but it leaves out the gun and the selected and privileged people don't like that because they aren't interested in a level playing field.
Free the markets, free the people, solve the problems.
