The situation gets all the worse as unions get into the mix - with Democrats making legislation strengthening union power, you get absurd situations where the uneducated or lesser educated roles in the workforce were actually making *more* money than the highly educated roles in the workforce, with artificial barriers to entry being created for those uneducated jobs. For instance, in my area, I have over a decade of experience in computer development - but I am not making more than a garbageman. I looked into how to become a garbageman, seeing as they make more money than I do - and it turns out it takes years of playing the game to even become *eligible* to get onto the list for consideration to be a garbageman. During the period of economic downturn, shortly following 9/11 and the stock market crash, the garbagemen in the area went on strike, for higher pay - and won, while I had to take a decrease in pay.
All of this creates a 'class' of employees... but with that class all clustered together nicely, that means that the percentages, which are required to stay about the same for a healthy business, no matter inflation, result in a much larger profit.
I once did the math, a long time ago, on what would happen if you took that larger profit and distributed it amongst workers. I got something like less than $100 more a year. The profit basically disappears. I also took it and considered what would happen if it went to the top earners - it resulted in tens of thousands of dollars more a year.
What's more, what with union laws, and democrat legislation prohibiting employers from treating employees differently than each other, not to mention increased threat of lawsuits all over the place, this money also cannot be redirected very easily towards those doing better work. The Democratic legislation trends towards 'everyone is equal, and should be treated the same.' This results in pay based on seniority, not effect.
Additionally, many 'private' industries have their prices set for them by the Democrats. For instance, if a hospital wants to remain competitive, and wants to serve poor people who are injured, they need medicare money. But in order to receive medicare money, they need to accept government price-setting. Having a family who's worked in medical billing, and knowing just how much doctors and nurses have to break the law just to lower the price on someone's medical care by falsifying records... I know JUST how much of the overpricing problem for medical care today results from government price setting.
With a solid pattern put in place via Democrat legislation and union contracts, we can now determine exactly how much money people need to get by, given the guidelines laid out by the government on exactly what your minimum is. What's more, a lot of Democrat anti-competition laws prevents companies from lessening the profit margin they make, or otherwise playing the market to try to provide better services for more money.
For instance, the fuel industry here in Wisconsin. Democrats passed a law saying that the fuel industry has to make a certain level of profit to 'discourage unhealthy competition.' Not long ago, a particular business lowered their prices a few pennies lower than the minimum profit they're allowed to make, in the midst of fantastically rising gas prices. The immediate reaction by Democrats in the area was to not only threaten the owner of the business with jail, but a lawsuit on top of that, for daring to lower his prices.
So with these elements laying out the pattern, we see that Democrats have clustered the employees into a single group around the bottom of the spectrum, instead of having it spread out across the whole spectrum, and are laying out legislation raising the prices of what we use every day. This does not *stop* the spectrum from being laid out, and in fact, allows the spectrum to stretch all the further... but removing people from the center of that spectrum. Thus, this increases the raw financial gap.
Re: Cite evidence, please.
All of this creates a 'class' of employees... but with that class all clustered together nicely, that means that the percentages, which are required to stay about the same for a healthy business, no matter inflation, result in a much larger profit.
I once did the math, a long time ago, on what would happen if you took that larger profit and distributed it amongst workers. I got something like less than $100 more a year. The profit basically disappears. I also took it and considered what would happen if it went to the top earners - it resulted in tens of thousands of dollars more a year.
What's more, what with union laws, and democrat legislation prohibiting employers from treating employees differently than each other, not to mention increased threat of lawsuits all over the place, this money also cannot be redirected very easily towards those doing better work. The Democratic legislation trends towards 'everyone is equal, and should be treated the same.' This results in pay based on seniority, not effect.
Additionally, many 'private' industries have their prices set for them by the Democrats. For instance, if a hospital wants to remain competitive, and wants to serve poor people who are injured, they need medicare money. But in order to receive medicare money, they need to accept government price-setting. Having a family who's worked in medical billing, and knowing just how much doctors and nurses have to break the law just to lower the price on someone's medical care by falsifying records... I know JUST how much of the overpricing problem for medical care today results from government price setting.
With a solid pattern put in place via Democrat legislation and union contracts, we can now determine exactly how much money people need to get by, given the guidelines laid out by the government on exactly what your minimum is. What's more, a lot of Democrat anti-competition laws prevents companies from lessening the profit margin they make, or otherwise playing the market to try to provide better services for more money.
For instance, the fuel industry here in Wisconsin. Democrats passed a law saying that the fuel industry has to make a certain level of profit to 'discourage unhealthy competition.' Not long ago, a particular business lowered their prices a few pennies lower than the minimum profit they're allowed to make, in the midst of fantastically rising gas prices. The immediate reaction by Democrats in the area was to not only threaten the owner of the business with jail, but a lawsuit on top of that, for daring to lower his prices.
So with these elements laying out the pattern, we see that Democrats have clustered the employees into a single group around the bottom of the spectrum, instead of having it spread out across the whole spectrum, and are laying out legislation raising the prices of what we use every day. This does not *stop* the spectrum from being laid out, and in fact, allows the spectrum to stretch all the further... but removing people from the center of that spectrum. Thus, this increases the raw financial gap.