By how much do you think corporate taxes should be lowered?

I think corporate tax rates need to be raised, not lowered. And I say this even though I am the sole individual shareholder in my company (it's partly owned by a charitable foundation), which has a corporate form of ownership . . . 



A pair of reasons . . .

If workers are generally happy, why should they be forced to join a union? Aren't right-to-work laws a good thing?

Unions exist in a workplace because a majority of employees, at the time the union was voted in, voted them in. This question presupposes that the union was voted in even though employees were generally happy without one.  

It also presupposes that anyone is forced to join a union.

No one is forced to join a union. But at some workplaces, where a union has been designated by the employees to bargain collectively on their behalf, you must either be part of the union, or allow them to bargain for you in many areas. If you object, seek employment elsewhere: it's part of the terms of working there. 

It's like having to report to a manager or supervisor you dislike, or comply with work rules you find objectionable: you're not 'forced', but if you want to work there, that's what you're going to have to deal with.

"Right-to-work" laws guarantee no one's right to work - indeed they exist, in part, to lock "employment-at-will" in place. Right-to-work laws simply provide that employees may not be required, as a condition of employment, to participate in or pay dues or fees to a labor organization. 

How does hotel management or employees feel about the legalization of marijuana as it pertains to operations, whether that's housekeeping or marketing?

We're still going to drug test people, and if you test positive in a jurisdiction where the law permits (North Carolina is a tobacco-producing state and to protect smokers, North Carolina law prohibits discrimination on the basis of "off-duty use of lawful products", but I don't see North Carolina legalizing marijuana anytime soon), we're still going to fire you. 

And if you smoke a joint on the job or show up to work stoned, that's on-duty use and you're meat on a hook, the same as if we caught you drinking on the job or if you show up to work inebriated . . .



Hello?  This is 2017. Back in the '80's, before Len Bias, and Nancy Reagan's "Just say no" crusade; smoking grass was about as mainstream as it ever got, but not anymore. 

What's going to have to change before we classify it with off-duty alcohol use and take a more laissez-faire approach to it isn't legalization per se, it's lawful sources of supply. I don't like the kind of people you'd have to deal with nowadays to get the stuff, and if you deal with such people, you've got the wrong kind of people for friends . . .

Personally, I support the legalization of marijuana, but that doesn't mean I'd use it myself or want it around me, that I want it in my workplace, or that I want my employees floating through the day with a buzz on . . .

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Why don't we make the minimum wage in the US $100 an hour? That would get rid of poverty!

Because you don't want to pay $1000-2000 per night for a hotel room.

Minimum-wage laws are inflationary. A mandatory ten-fold increase in wages can only be dealt with by means of generating a nearly ten-fold increase in the revenues needed to pay it -- meaning that we lay on a nearly ten-fold increase in prices to consumers.

They don't really help the people they're intended to help. No one really benefits any from raises in the minimum wage for low-end wage earners except for low-end landlords (most often, slumlords who shouldn't be allowed to be landlords, at that) - the rent goes up to wipe out the increased income of the low-end tenants.

The minimum-wage model is not a good model at all to insure a living wage for workers at the lower end of the pay scale.

Here, try this instead - I bet it would work: