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"Legislating through a minimum wage system?"

Meeting with Mi Qing and Li Fu'an respectively, Mi Qing proposed her ruling core.

Mi Qing nodded: "Legislating a minimum wage, this is a common practice in major countries around the world, and there is no reason why we have always turned a blind eye." If legislation is not passed, it will not work well if it is appealed alone. ”

In the process of establishing a social welfare society in European and American countries, this minimum wage guarantee is actually the most important part of social welfare.

If we look at it according to the dogmatic economic model, setting a minimum wage is actually not good for the workers themselves, which is tantamount to restricting competition among workers and depriving some uncompetitive workers of their jobs, because this is tantamount to increasing the labor cost of enterprises, and they will tend to use fewer workers and reduce the employment rate.

But economics is a discipline, the economy itself, but not only the category of economics, but a sociological problem, is a complex social problem, economic theory is too inclined to efficiency, but ignores the people who make up society, classical economic theory even believes that taxation is also an impact on the economy, because the government tax is equivalent to siphoning resources from the economy.

However, social problems must be taken into account, and even stability is the first place, and efficiency can only be ranked second, so no country dares to operate in full accordance with the principles of economics, at least dare not give up taxation, without taxation, there will be no management funds, which is equivalent to giving up government management, which is equivalent to anarchism.

It is a cruel fact that good intentions often have a negative impact, because people are sometimes extremely blind and do not look at problems rationally. For example, stipulating a minimum wage system and legislating to raise wages often have the opposite effect, causing unemployment among workers at the bottom, but it will be welcomed by workers, which is not in line with economic efficiency, but it satisfies the people's hearts, and if the people's hearts are stable, the society will be stable.

Therefore, most countries would rather sacrifice efficiency to legislate a minimum wage, the purpose is only to please the workers, but in fact it is to hurt the workers who need the most protection, and in any system, in the end, those who are not competitive will always hurt the most, but they still think that they have benefited.

"Okay, let's legislate."

Yang Chao agreed, he knew that it was not good, but the workers thought it was good, and it was just a matter of psychological satisfaction. It's like if a monkey is not satisfied with three peaches in the morning and four peaches in the evening, and the monkey keeper gives him four peaches in the morning and three peaches in the evening, and the monkey is satisfied.

"So how do you deal with Pan Xun's co-optation of peasant votes? I know your support among the workers is very high, but the number of peasants in our country is more than the workers, and the workers, even the non-agricultural population in all the cities, at the national level, only account for about 30%. How do you meet the needs of 70% of the agricultural population? ”

If you can't meet the needs of the peasants, you can't get the peasants to vote for you.

Mi Qing said: "Maybe you can only promise to raise grain tariffs. ”

This is a big problem, since Yang Chao, China has exempted the tax on importing grain from Brazil, so every year China imports a huge amount of grain from Brazil, and then China immigrates nearly 100,000 people to Brazil every year, if the grain tariff is raised, the Brazilian government will definitely take countermeasures, and the signs of immigration problems that have appeared will immediately sharpen, if Brazilian nationalism is allowed to take the opportunity to take power, I am afraid that for China it is equivalent to completely losing the country that has the potential to feed the Chinese population in Brazil, An opportunity to make a decisive impact.

Another problem is that China's rural land income is indeed not high, because food is too cheap, but this will make a large number of agricultural people migrate to other industries, is a boost to industrialization, to let the land-loving Chinese out of the land, indeed than other ethnic groups to make greater efforts, if not to take compulsion, can only through this economic means, let farmers in order to obtain rich benefits in the city, so as to enter the city, if the tariff to protect the current rural industry, is equivalent to helping to fix the peasants on the land, which is not conducive to the strategic goal of industrialization.

The biggest problem is that it is very likely that raising tariffs will not protect the profits of rural farmers, because the biggest problem in rural China is that there are too many people, the per capita land area is too small, and a large number of farmers are actually just tenant farmers, renting small plots of land, and the labor force is not fully utilized, which is equivalent to not having full employment. Even if Brazil's grain imports are reduced, it will not be possible to increase the income of the vast number of rural farmers, and it is only possible to let the farmers in Northeast China, who are now growing a large number of soybeans and other cash crops, start growing grain, and China's grain prices will still not be too high.

Therefore, the possible impact of raising Brazil's grain tariffs is that Brazil is in opposition to China on the issue of immigration, but it cannot effectively increase the income of farmers, and the only benefit is that farmers feel comforted, which is just a psychological problem with no practical significance.

"As far as I know, Brazil's grain imports are mainly corn, and China's corn imports are not used for food, but mainly for feed. The commercial wheat in northern China comes mainly from the northeast, while the rice in the south is mainly self-produced and a small part is imported from Australia. Therefore, it will not be of practical significance, but will hit the rural pig industry. If it's just for the ballot, can it be done by other means? ”

Yang Chao analyzed that China's rural areas are basically self-sufficient, and there is no need to transport grain from outside without disasters to reduce production, but due to the mechanized production efficiency of large farms in Northeast China, the grain market in northern cities is almost monopolized by them, and the edible rice in the south is better, because the mechanization of rice production is not yet popular, and the mechanical properties are not stable enough, and rice is a type of food that needs the most labor, and the labor required by the same land is often three times that of wheat. On the contrary, it is more suitable for the rural areas of southern China, which have a large population.

At the same time, due to the difficulty of mechanization, the price of rice remains high, and the consumption of wheat in southern cities has also increased significantly in recent years.

"Otherwise?"

Isn't the best way, the most direct way to protect an industry, to raise tariffs? So Mi Qing didn't quite understand this suggestion.

Yang Chao said: "First, exempt from agricultural tax; Second, it is necessary to help farmers develop the cultivation of cash crops. Eliminating the gimmick of imperial food can be copied, which can attract enough eyeballs and let you get more attention. Helping peasants develop the cultivation of cash crops is the fundamental solution to the problem of peasant income; after all, our per capita land area is too small, and it is impossible to make a fortune if we grow grain. Like the farmers in Suzhou and Huzhou, the economic benefits of growing mulberry and raising silkworms are much higher than growing grain. From abroad, the Dutch did a good job, and their horticulturist agriculture also created extremely high economic value on small plots of land, again not by growing grain, but by growing a variety of flowers and vegetables. ”

Mi Qing nodded: "Looks like I'm going to have to hire some agronomists." ”

Yang Chao said with a smile: "It's not just to hire agronomists, you go directly to Zhang Jian, when he was the Minister of Agriculture and Commerce, he hired a large number of American agronomists, and also trained a large number of Chinese agricultural technicians, even now he has a large number of professionals on his farm, and he has everything, and he can also get the support of a large number of traditional people." ”

Mi Qing said: "I'm afraid you have to help invite me, I'm afraid I won't give it to the top of my face." ”

Yang Chao said: "Hey, it seems that I should look at this old guy's face again." ”

A few days after the meeting with Li Fuan, when Li Fuan came to Shanghai to canvass votes, he met with Yang Chao.

"Reduce corporate tax revenue by 30% in four years."

This is Li Fuan's campaign slogan, there is no secret to speak of, the newspapers are propagating it every day, he is not short of money, he can mobilize public opinion.

Yang Chao asked, "What about the votes?" This was not four years ago, let alone eight years ago, when the factory owners took the workers to vote, and now it is the guilds that take the workers to vote. You don't get the support of the guild, which is very difficult. ”

Li Fuan said with a smile: "I will pass a law to raise the real wages of workers by at least 20% within three years, and the tax reduction for enterprises is also a concession for workers." ”

This is the classic theory of the later American Republican Party, by reducing the burden on the enterprise, and then infiltrating the benefits to the workers. The Democratic Party, on the other hand, hopes to effectively improve the interests of the people at the bottom through administrative power.

Yang Chao said: "It's too winding, the workers may not appreciate it, the key is that the union will not appreciate it." You don't know about the trade unions, all the trade unions, including our rich and powerful trade unions, they are just helping the enterprise to realize their power aspirations. So you have to make the unions feel empowered. ”

Li Fuan did not organize a huge trade union organization like Mi Qing, he was always active in industry and commerce, and it was the chamber of commerce that supported him. But Yang Chao felt that with the development of the trade union, the balance of strength between workers and capital was gradually approaching, and the chamber of commerce could no longer bring enough support to Li Fuan.

"We will legislate to give unions more power to negotiate with management on their behalf," Li said. But there will also be legislation to impose some restrictions on the behavior of trade unions, such as unreasonable BA workers, which will be sanctioned. ”

It is clear that Li Fuan has reached a tacit agreement with industrial capital, and they are willing to give up a part of their profits in exchange for the promise of the workers not to cause trouble. The trade union movement of this era was just beginning to develop, and for the first time in history, the ruling class had learned to use political means to fight for its own interests. However, they are not good enough to learn and are not rational enough, so the trade unions in many places are greedy and unreasonable, and even flout the law, and many trade union leaders are like hooligans, and indeed many social hooligans have entered this organization, and because they are bold, dare to speak to the workers, and even dare to fight with the capitalists on behalf of the workers, they are embraced by the workers.

After listening to Li Fuan, Yang Chao knew that Li Fuan had done his homework, and obviously his campaign team was extremely professional, more professional than Mi Qing.

But it doesn't necessarily work, at least until one problem is solved:

"How are you going to win the support of the peasants?" (To be continued.) )