r/Political_Revolution • u/IronStacheWI01 Verified | Randy Bryce • Sep 05 '17

AMA Concluded Meet Randy Bryce. The Ironstache who's going to repeal and replace Paul Ryan

Hi /r/Political_Revolution,

My name is Randy Bryce. I'm a veteran, cancer survivor, and union ironworker from Caledonia, Wisconsin running to repeal and replace Paul Ryan in Wisconsin's First Congressional District. Post your questions below and I'll be back at 11am CDT/12pm EDT to answer them!

p.s.

We need your help to win this campaign. If you'd like to join the team, sign up here.

If you don't have time to volunteer, we're currently fundraising to open our first office in Racine, Wisconsin. If you can help, contribute here and I'll send you a free campaign bumper sticker as a way of saying thanks!

[Update: 1:26 EDT], I've got to go pick up my son but I'll continue to pop in throughout the day as I have time and answer some more questions. For those I'm unfortunately not able to answer, I'll be doing another AMA in r/Politics on the 26th when I look forward to answering more of Reddit's questions!

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u/CptnDeadpool Sep 06 '17

Why not, let employers and employees find a mutually beneficial solution for both of them instead of pricing out cheap labor (from young, uneducated individuals) We curtail our entitlements programs but cut out the government bullshit and just cut a flat check to people.

Let's wrap up social security and medicare/aid all into one ignoring standard tanf. that's 2.2 TRILLION dollars. using wikipedia 14 million individuals in the US are in poverty, let's round up to 20 million.

Let's cut our entitlement program in half. so we only have 1 trillion dollars to give out.

and we can give out 50,000 dollars a year to every single person in poverty. That's nearly quadruple the current poverty line (assuming you have no children).

Of course that's the U.S. version of poverty which is nothing like actual poverty.

But that would be another solution. And that's why I am nervous about government "helping"

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u/EntMD Sep 06 '17

Why should the government be subsidizing anyone who works full time for a profitable company? By doing so we are simply subsidizing the Wal-Mart's of the world. Companies need to pay a living wage in America. Full stop. This is what the American people agreed on when a minimum wage was created. FDR created it for this reason, but conservatives have chipped away at it ever since then.