Clinton: Unnecessary regulations thwart business growth

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15. But are these regulations

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the regulations put in place to help workers? Safety, health care, consistent hours, minimum wage? Are they talking about unions getting in the way?

There are of course a lot of "regulations" that refer to State bureaucracy and skimming. NPR ran a piece this morning about how people who fall back on the gig economy get shafted by tax make-work. The same thing happens to people on welfare or SSI who take gig work before getting a full time job: reporting it isn't worth the ensuing redtape gor either the person attempting to escape poverty or the case workers who must process the additional petty paperwork and adjust the resulting aid. Since the threats pertaining to not reporting are dire, better to not work and go hungry.

Hillary's new policy advisers are also supposed to roll out a platform that emphasizes "putting America back to work" - at least those poor schmucks that have to get a job instead of collecting fat fees for public speaking and sitting on corporate boards. The secret code here, however, is the promise to lift the white middle class and distinguish them from those lazy welfare-mooching colored people. Every "progressive" gift Hillary gives has this poison pill wrapped in the middle: she is talking to the "working" people, and her promise is only for them.

It sounds to me that part of her mission is to repackage Third Way ideas (re:deregulation) to try to make the people "understand" what's for the best. Or to make it look like these Wall Street ideas have a popular mandate. As Woo Me with Science said: Oligarchy Theater.

Barbara Lee/Bernie 2016~~~