Wages have been disconnected from productivity for over 4 decades. Like, that's Bernie's whole point; employers see all the benefits of improved productivity, and workers do not get any more money or leisure time.

Your employer does not want to offer you that deal because your employer wants as much of your labour as they can get for as little money as they can get away with paying. They aren't incentivized to pay you one cent more than it takes to stop you from quitting.

Um... yes it does. He's the director of the department of Health and Human Services for this Republican administration. He sets health policy for the Republican party.

In fact, you might want to consider organizing with your coworkers, and trying to negotiate as a collective. I've heard that sort of thing can actually result in meaningful policy changes.

Don't forget prison population.

This might be true if the drop in population were controlled, and the government could easily stop this trend once it reaches its desired population. But this drop in population is uncontrolled, and I don't blame them for worrying about it.

So the US will deny visas for officials from countries that censor social media (including "demand[ing] that American tech platforms adopt global content moderation policies"), while simultaneously denying visas based on the social media posts of the visa applicant? What a bunch of hypocrites!

Of course, the authoritarianism is much worse than the hypocrisy.

And I'm sure, based on the Trump administration's history, that this process will involve deliberate analysis, followed by targeted removal of specific regulations in order to achieve the result they want. It definitely won't be a reckless, slash-and-burn approach that leads to a disaster, followed by some halfhearted backtracking.

There are zero US cities with a population as high as Quebec's. If you go by metro areas, there are 3. If you go by combined statistical area, there are 6. If Quebec were a US state, it would have about the 12th highest population of states.

This is a strong contender for the most deliberately ignorant comment I've read in my life.

"If you ignore all the complexity, it's a simple topic."

It's like you don't even understand the concept of higher education. Spoiler alert: it's not just job training.

What's your position on this? Do you think it's wrong of the Trump administration to be doing this? Or were you fine with the Biden administration doing it?

The hypocrisy is irrelevant. The Trump regime is a fascist one, and words mean nothing to fascists. The only thing a fascist sees here is a threat to a rival.

You're either arguing in bad faith to waste my time, or you're actually functionally illiterate.

Your own quote supports my claim.

So now that we're all on the same page about most countries getting 10% tariffs, I'll repeat my question. Who's paying these tariffs?

I know this shit is hard to keep up with, but I'm going to need a citation on that, from a source more recent than this news site. From my link (emphasis mine):

The site goes on to describe updates that other countries have made to their tariff policies on the 10th and 11th, but there are no further updates for US policy.

But the tariffs did happen. They're happening now. 145% on China. 25% on Canada and Mexico. 10% on everyone else. Who's paying these tariffs?