[EM] Sign these 3 petitions to the white house

[Michael Rouse]

Well, Warren covered voting and taxes, so I might as well put up a 
petition regarding employment.

http://wh.gov/4zJ      Fund research into wages subsidies, where some or 
all of the minimum wage is covered by state and federal dollars.

Just think of it as a Pigovian subsidy on labor. Or at least a way of 
making the federal government pay for a portion of their unfunded 
mandate (the minimum wage). Either way, it would be interesting -- and 
potentially very useful -- to fund research into seeing what effect it 
had. They did that at least four times with the negative income tax in 
the 60's and 70's, and that didn't explicitly encourage work, which a 
subsidy would.

(I know, they pay for it out of our taxes, but still -- that $747 
billion stimulus they passed a couple of years ago could have given 
every American worker a $2.50/hr wage subsidy for a year.)

As a side note, I apologize for posting something extremely tangential 
on EM. Sorry.


On 10/1/2011 4:05 PM, Warren Smith wrote:
> I created 3 new petitions on "We the People" at WhiteHouse.gov
> you know you want to sign.  Will you add your name to mine?
> If these petitions get 5,000 signatures by 31 October 2011
> (which means you need to recruit more signers!!! Don't just sign, recruit!),
> then the White House will review it and respond so we can have a
> fine "screw you" letter to hang on our walls.
>     You can view and sign the petitions here:
>
> http://wh.gov/4z4             Get rid of gerrymandering
>
> http://wh.gov/4zj              Improve Vote-Counting System
>
> http://wh.gov/4zG    Permanently switch to Pigovian tax system to
> avert fiscal crisis&  make economy improve country
>
> -----------------------------
>
> Other perhaps interesting petitions you can sign (not created by me) include:
>
> Remove Marijuana from the Schedule 1 list of drugs in the Controlled
> Substances Act
> https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/remove-marijuana-schedule-1-list-drugs-controlled-substances-act/D2J2ZdX4
>
> Put fee on carbon-based fuels and return revenue to households
> https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/put-fee-carbon-based-fuels-and-return-revenue-households/VBcTBMLt
>
> Reverse the SCOTUS ruling on Citizens United v FEC, with a
> Constitutional Amendment by supporting H.J.RES.78.
> https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/reverse-scotus-ruling-citizens-united-v-fec-constitutional-amendment-supporting-hjres78/vWTGSMJX
>
> Repeal Patriot Act
> https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/repeal-patriot-act/JF1pdPKg
>
> End Corporate Personhood
> https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/restore-democracy-ending-corporate-personhood/KQYzl8S5
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