Comments by "Robert Morgan" (@RobertMorgan) on "Small business SOLVES labor shortage; here's how!" video.

This is a non-solution for a HUGE amount of employees and employers: PUBLIC WORKERS. Your local municipal government can't just change pay rates without funding, meaning higher taxes for all residents. As a highly skilled public employee, for my pay to go up by any major margin would require taxing our customers, the taxpayers, more, and that usually doesn't fly. They're already heavily taxed. Our hourly pay is set by ordinance, so that rate can only be changed by a city council vote. It's either that or we walk out and suddenly there's no water, fire dept, or police.
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Problem is a large part of them WAY overvalue themselves. At some point many people look at the increasing price of services and say nope, that's not worth it to me. We might end up with higher paid employees, but more businesses going under, resulting in higher pay for a smaller number of jobs, and less choice/variety for consumers. It's like the reverse of the Walmart effect on small businesses. Instead of Walmart moving into an area, charging lower prices and driving locals out of business, the locals will have to raise their prices to pay high wages, driving customers away to lower cost alternatives and driving the locals under. Remember, most people already don't own businesses because the cost is too high, and that's only going to get worse.
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Or you could be a dependable person in two ways, by meeting your work responsibilities AND driving in a proper way in which you don't crash like an idiot. Especially in a job where you have to be actually present for your work to function. Work from home is an impossibility for most jobs.
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@Me__Myself__and__I you mean taxes would plummet instantly as all those companies left the US for places they didn't get taxed as much. You can't fall into the trap of paying people to leave you. It's like I say about sales tax rates, if it's 7.5% in this town, and almost 10% a town over, you're paying me to shop elsewhere for less. In many cases the drive costs less than the tax difference. Also, look online. If the price of shipping is less than the price to drive, and I'm not in a hurry, I just got paid not to drive to your location, and if I can dodge the sales tax entirely online, even better. As prices and taxes rise, people will find ways to avoid it or just outright not participate.
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