I meant about work conditions, but I guess your post above does make sense nowadays, but it's hard to tell.

I just don't think relative terms matter that much. Still, I think I mostly agree with you, in a sense.

Median incomes based on national GDP which includes all the company transactions generating the majority of income/revenue for a nation. Super rich multinational companies revenue privately owned by rich elites distort the median income much? Some leading economists from different schools: Austrian, Keynesian, Chicago, etc refute the use of GDP being used for the measurement of median income. 

Agreed, it's an all out assault on worker's rights that began under Reagan and has continued unabated to this day.  Doesn't matter if a Republican or Democrat is in the white house.  People just don't know how bad working conditions were in the early 1900's.  It's really sad.

And which ones would those be?

hmmm.. I should have lots of kids to make them work for me.

just kidding. haha

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article23255.html

"In a global economy, where U.S. workers are forced to compete with Chinese workers who make less than $1 an hour, the jobs outsourced to countries like China and India are not returning.

Equally, while the United States is exporting high-paying jobs, the nation is importing an underclass across open borders, providing additional pressure on salaries and benefits in lower-paying jobs.

Inevitably, the cycle of poverty deepens as the economic downturn reduces job opportunities and forces more of the middle class into poverty.

The tragedy is that those pushed into poverty are likely to stay there, as Democrats continue to propose big government solutions, unable or unwilling to admit that increased taxes destroy jobs every bit as much as government-funded welfare programs perpetuate poverty."

Globalisation has crippled middle class America and increased poverty. America can not compete with workers in China/Asia that have armies of slave labourers and disregards human rights and civil liberties. So long as it is making the multinational companies rich all in the name of free trade "shock" economic policies and economic rationalisation. China pays workers a paltry slave wage of $0.60 per hour. Vietnam pays its workers $0.26 per hour. Starvation slave labour wages and Asian nations exploit child labourers.

The end of the Cold War and the falling of the Berlin Wall has sped up globalisation and the collapse of the middle class. Heading towards two class system: rich and poor.  Dark Ages all over again? 

Exactly! They would be much easier to oversee if they were broke up by state, county or city. To bad everything has to all or none. And if one state was balloning out of effect it could be seen.

Well a income tax and social security were unconstitutional.

SS is a pay as you go system. In other words there is not proof that a dollar in is a dollar out. Because of this you are paying for someone else based on the currently known limit to SS.

ie. A later retirement date to give time for the current work force to pay for your retirement.

Because of this your grand children will be paying for your sins as anyone who is currently working is paying for the sins of the ones retired now.

The part that makes it unconstitutional though is that you are forced to pay it by law.

Generational Tyranny in the end.

As for income tax, it's a shady prospect, it always was. I have a foggy memory of the history I just remember a few politicians wanting to put one in but Americans rejected it due to the similarity with a monorchial taxation.

The end result is that it was passed in like 1910 I forget how but I remember getting a shady vibe from reading the bio's of the men involved in the decision. It shouldnt have to be said but the income tax wasn't brought in for the betterment of the American people.

IF income tax relieved property taxes and so on then it would be in favor of the people to relinquish 30% of their income.

This guy must think we are living in the 18th or 19th century: we hope he is not serious. Maybe he is trolling for media attention with controversial policies. 

Social regress and reverse evolution: America could adopt the human rights and economic policies of China. Would the American people accept going back to a draconian society that does not respect human rights and civil liberties?

No minimum wages in Asian like: China, North Korea  and Vietnam. etc. Child slave labourers work for lower wages than adult workers. No trial in China and no legal representation. China has an impressive record on human rights- right? 

I have no idea whose idea that was or what their logic was, but I've got a hunch it was bullshit.

Many states pay foodservers less than minimum wage too.  They figure "hey, you get tips, so uh... fuck you, you're getting half or a third of minimum wage, and you better hope you make the difference in tips, and if you have a bad day where you don't get too many tips, well, fuck off and die."  Luckily I'm in California where that's illegal.