(February 10, 2016 at 2:47 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(February 10, 2016 at 2:14 pm)Divinity Wrote: Employers don't get to make healthcare decisions for their employees. Certainly not because "Oh they can buy condoms!"Then maybe employers should not offer any of their staff health insurance as part of their compensation. Money that would have gone directly to the company's insurance policy could be directed back to the employee. Employees would then truly be making their own health care decisions. Their first decision would be whether or not to carry insurance.
As a business owner, I refuse to hire anyone. Conforming to all the federal, state and local regulations is too expensive, too risky and ultimately unnecessary. I have consultants, independent contractors, and out-source all my production - mostly overseas. I started my own business for the sole purpose of making money so I could stay in the middle class, not to provide social services.
Yep, because livable wages and universal health care might make it easier on employees and you too. Just easier to say "fuck the poor" and worry about your own ass.
Did you ever consider that direct investment in livable wages and cheaper cost of living might create that less dependency on government and protect your own feedback loop. Workers are the bulk of the buying public so the more money they have the more money they spend.
If less regulation and deregulation worked, nobody would be complaining. We have had trickle up economics for the past 30 years and it has not worked.
So you could stay in the middle class? I love mom and pop business owners who stupidly side with the heavyweights when they are featherweights just because they share the title "business owner". Let me tell you something bucko, if a giant corporation who provided a similar product or service you do, wanted to march right in to your market base and squash you, they can and would. Then you'd be in the unemployment line just like the employees you sub contract.
