Do you think this is gonna pass? I’m not sure what you expect here.
If Dems get 56% of seats, this’ll likely pass. (51% isn’t enough because Fetterman is nearly useless).
For some reason people here really want to focus on the few potential holdouts rather than the 50% or more of Republicans who are the real reason this won’t pass.
$25 would destroy any ability for most small businesses to ever get larger or going at all.
I’m basically dying a slave holding a paintbrush in that timeline or raising prices 5x at least. $2k a month for employee health insurance. $25 an hour. Kiss literally everything that isn’t a major corp goodbye!
What needs to happen is redistributing that wealth those corps stole from us.
Small businesses die out, often times, because people can’t afford to buy their stuff. One of the most basic signs of a good economy is small amounts changing hands often. Places like Walmart dominate the field because everyone is so poor they need to worry about saving single dollars and many cannot responsibly buy from local businesses. It’s literally a business strategy for Walmart, Amazon, etc. to undercut long enough to drive out small business and then they keep their employees too poor to fight back.
Maybe we should do universal healthcare too. That would help them.
I’m not one of those anarchists that thinks nobody needs to work, but I think universal healthcare, an actual living minimum wage, and a 32-36 hour work week are all achievable.
Sure is a good thing we don’t currently count healthcare costs as taxes, or that’d look a lot different. Did you know most employers spend more on your healthcare than you do?
Whatever you call it, it would be nice to have more take home pay.
Because healthcare is not a kind of “market”, it doesn’t lend itself well to the ideals of capitalism. You aren’t going to go shopping around for hospitals while you are bleeding out in the back of an ambulance.
The congressional budget office even agrees that Medicare for all will save the government money, because it will eliminate the bureaucracy put in place to fleece money out of patients.
yeah its not going to effect mom and pop shops if you are actually talking family run. It will make it more cautious in growing but if anything it will make it harder to have a business where the owner stops working. I would prefer more the thing where the highest compensation can’t be over 100x the lowest but im not going to quibble about the best way to do good things over bad things.
Not sure why this is getting down voted so hard. There are a ton of small businesses that have really small margins, just think about how many didn’t survive COVID. Any businesses that hire lots of low skill labourers would struggle to get off the ground.
Yeah but then it’s not a good business. We could lower the minimum wage and more business plans become viable. But at some point it’s like I rather that single mom stay home with the kids than work for $7 an hour. It’s better for the economy and society to have people doing higher value stuff like raising kids than stickering boxes or something for minimum wage.
Do you think this is gonna pass? I’m not sure what you expect here.
If Dems get 56% of seats, this’ll likely pass. (51% isn’t enough because Fetterman is nearly useless).
For some reason people here really want to focus on the few potential holdouts rather than the 50% or more of Republicans who are the real reason this won’t pass.
$25 would destroy any ability for most small businesses to ever get larger or going at all.
I’m basically dying a slave holding a paintbrush in that timeline or raising prices 5x at least. $2k a month for employee health insurance. $25 an hour. Kiss literally everything that isn’t a major corp goodbye!
What needs to happen is redistributing that wealth those corps stole from us.
Small businesses die out, often times, because people can’t afford to buy their stuff. One of the most basic signs of a good economy is small amounts changing hands often. Places like Walmart dominate the field because everyone is so poor they need to worry about saving single dollars and many cannot responsibly buy from local businesses. It’s literally a business strategy for Walmart, Amazon, etc. to undercut long enough to drive out small business and then they keep their employees too poor to fight back.
You’re scared, and I get that, but it will be ok.
Maybe we should do universal healthcare too. That would help them.
I’m not one of those anarchists that thinks nobody needs to work, but I think universal healthcare, an actual living minimum wage, and a 32-36 hour work week are all achievable.
I mean… Look at most other first world countries, you don’t need to think, it’s pretty reasonable shown it’s a thing
Universal Healthcare definitely is achievable but it requires a lot of tax money.
Right now US total taxation level is ~30%. If you want EU style safety net on you, then expect 45-50%
It would be cheaper than the current insurance system.
Sure is a good thing we don’t currently count healthcare costs as taxes, or that’d look a lot different. Did you know most employers spend more on your healthcare than you do?
Whatever you call it, it would be nice to have more take home pay.
How about reforming healthcare so it’s both private and reasonably priced?
Because healthcare is not a kind of “market”, it doesn’t lend itself well to the ideals of capitalism. You aren’t going to go shopping around for hospitals while you are bleeding out in the back of an ambulance.
The congressional budget office even agrees that Medicare for all will save the government money, because it will eliminate the bureaucracy put in place to fleece money out of patients.
Small business’s definitely can afford to pay 25$ an hour. If they can’t, they dont deserve to be in businessm
yeah its not going to effect mom and pop shops if you are actually talking family run. It will make it more cautious in growing but if anything it will make it harder to have a business where the owner stops working. I would prefer more the thing where the highest compensation can’t be over 100x the lowest but im not going to quibble about the best way to do good things over bad things.
Not sure why this is getting down voted so hard. There are a ton of small businesses that have really small margins, just think about how many didn’t survive COVID. Any businesses that hire lots of low skill labourers would struggle to get off the ground.
Yeah but then it’s not a good business. We could lower the minimum wage and more business plans become viable. But at some point it’s like I rather that single mom stay home with the kids than work for $7 an hour. It’s better for the economy and society to have people doing higher value stuff like raising kids than stickering boxes or something for minimum wage.