BETO’S EXTREME EUROPEAN ANTI-JOBS AGENDA
“Job-killer Beto O’Rourke supports extreme, European-style labor policies that would empower radical union bosses and kill small business jobs. Policies like this show Beto cares more about his union backers than Texas job creators.” – Mark Miner, Communications Director
O’Rourke Supports Raising Corporate Taxes, Forcing Workers To Join Unions And Creating An Onerous, European-Style Labor Market:
O’Rourke Wants To Increase Corporate Taxes. JOHN HARWOOD: “What sounds right to you?” BETO O’ROURKE: “I think you at a minimum roll back the worst elements of the Trump tax cuts. So the top marginal tax rate back up to 39%. If you were to do that, and in addition make some other structural changes to our tax code — the corporate tax rate, which was brought down from 35% to 21%, bring that back up to 28% — great place to start. And as you probably know, you generate hundreds of billions of dollars over the next 10 years. If you were to tax capital at the same rate that you tax ordinary wage income, like the waiters who are working here, you also get to some greater structural correction to a very unequal economy, and you generate the revenue necessary.” (John Harwood, “Beto O’Rourke Begins Filling In The Blanks On The Economy, Taxes And Entitlements,” CNBC, 7/5/19)
O’Rourke Wants “A European-Style System Of Collective Bargaining,” Where Negotiating Would Occur Between Union Leaders And Managers For An Entire Sector, Not Just Company By Company. “Further, O’Rourke’s plan seeks to create a European-style system of collective bargaining, where union leaders and managers would agree on minimum standards for an entire industry sector rather than negotiating separately with each individual company. For industries with little union presence, O’Rourke says he would establish so-called wage boards, with equal employer and employee representation, to bargain over industry-wide pay.” (Ian Kullgren, “How Beto O’Rourke Would Help Workers,” Politico, 8/22/19)
O’Rourke Wants To Eliminate Right-To-Work Laws. “As President, Beto would work with Congress to pass The Protecting the Right to Organize Act, which includes: increasing monetary penalties for employers; making corporate directors and officers liable for participation in or knowledge of the violation of workers’ rights; allowing workers at one company to picket, strike, or support a boycott in solidarity with workers at other companies; and eliminating so-called right-to-work laws, which make it harder for unions to support themselves financially and are associated with lower wages.” (Beto O’Rourke, “A 21st Century Labor Contract,” Medium, 8/22/19)
“O’Rourke Calls For A $15 Minimum Wage.” (Ian Kullgren, “How Beto O’Rourke Would Help Workers,” Politico, 8/22/19)
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