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  • #61
    Originally posted by lilpixieofterror View Post
    I never said that at all. What I have said is the government should keep itself out of setting standard, across the board, benefits (in most cases) and should allow employees and employers freedom to choose what benefits they prefer. As an employer, the government needs to set up a military and needs to compete with other employers to attract the talents they desire. Military service is difficult, ask people to give up lots of freedoms, and this requires something to get someone to sign that dotted line. In this case, benefits because they can’t really offer things you get in regular jobs. Do you get overtime? Per regulation, I have to only be given 6 hours of rest, per day and don’t get a penny more, no matter how many hours I work. Would OSHA allow your employer to do that? Would labor unions agree to that? That’s the cost and why the benefits are so generous because who would agree to that stuff without some benefit? Did you pick your current job, based on the provided benefits? Have you turned down jobs, due to the benefits not being what you wanted? That’s what I mean, you should have the freedom and flexibility to pick what you want.



    And if you want it great, but not everyone seeks the most benefits because their situation is different. An Uber driver might have a full time job and just wants the extra cash. A Walmart door greeter may be retired and just does his job for something to do. Yet a wife might have great benefits through her husband and doesn’t care much about the benefits of her job. Everyone should be able to work in the way they choose. Some like the security of a 9-5 job others like the flexibility of being a contractor, let them both work the way they choose.



    Maybe, but it should be your choice to make.
    Then the government should do the same with social security and unemployment, right?

    In fact, the military should drop all those benefits we tax payers are paying for because not all of the members of the military will use them or even want them. If you want healthcare, you should just pay for insurance like everyone else. If you want to go to college, just pay for it like everyone else. Housing allowance? Pay for your own home or live in a barracks.

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    • #62
      Originally posted by Sparko View Post
      Then the government should do the same with social security and unemployment, right?
      SSI is a political football that keeps getting kicked down the road, that will sooner or later need to be addressed. I personally would love to be able to manage the money I currently put into SSI. Wouldn’t you?

      In fact, the military should drop all those benefits we tax payers are paying for because not all of the members of the military will use them or even want them. If you want healthcare, you should just pay for insurance like everyone else. If you want to go to college, just pay for it like everyone else. Housing allowance? Pay for your own home or live in a barracks.
      Good luck getting anyone to join unless you raise pay, by a lot, and totally restructure the military rank structure, to pay for it all.
      "The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
      GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy

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      • #63
        Originally posted by lilpixieofterror View Post
        SSI is a political football that keeps getting kicked down the road, that will sooner or later need to be addressed. I personally would love to be able to manage the money I currently put into SSI. Wouldn’t you?



        Good luck getting anyone to join unless you raise pay, by a lot, and totally restructure the military rank structure, to pay for it all.
        It was just an extension of your plan for civilian employees. I guess your idea stinks when you actually apply it to yourself, huh?

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        • #64
          Originally posted by Sparko View Post
          It was just an extension of your plan for civilian employees. I guess your idea stinks when you actually apply it to yourself, huh?
          Not at all, just saying:

          Pay would have to increase to meet the market on job responsibilities.
          "The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
          GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy

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          • #65
            Originally posted by lilpixieofterror View Post
            Not at all, just saying:

            Pay would have to increase to meet the market on job responsibilities.
            What does that even mean?

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            • #66
              Originally posted by Sparko View Post
              What does that even mean?
              Simply put,

              What does the CEO of Walmart make?
              What does the Chief of Staff, for one of the military service branches make?

              Civilian pay is often many times higher, for the same responsibilities. I would be roughly a maintenance manager, which according to indeed is around 82,000 a year, with some companies paying over 100k and that isn’t counting benefits either. So sure, I love that idea and lots of people would too.
              "The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
              GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy

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              • #67
                Originally posted by lilpixieofterror View Post
                Simply put,

                What does the CEO of Walmart make?
                What does the Chief of Staff, for one of the military service branches make?

                Civilian pay is often many times higher, for the same responsibilities. I would be roughly a maintenance manager, which according to indeed is around 82,000 a year, with some companies paying over 100k and that isn’t counting benefits either. So sure, I love that idea and lots of people would too.
                Then go find a new job. That's your prerogative. As soon as your enlistment is up, you can leave. What does that have to do with the discussion? You seem to be drifting all over the place.

                Why is it wrong for the government to require companies to do certain things to protect an employees job in case they are sick? Especially if it costs the taxpayer nothing and the employer very little.

                Your argument that not everyone would want it is silly. Why would you not want to be paid if you were out sick for 3 months? And your argument that not everyone needs it is also silly. You never know when you could end up with an illness or be in an accident.

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                • #68
                  Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                  Then go find a new job. That's your prerogative. As soon as your enlistment is up, you can leave. What does that have to do with the discussion? You seem to be drifting all over the place.

                  Why is it wrong for the government to require companies to do certain things to protect an employees job in case they are sick? Especially if it costs the taxpayer nothing and the employer very little.

                  Your argument that not everyone would want it is silly. Why would you not want to be paid if you were out sick for 3 months? And your argument that not everyone needs it is also silly. You never know when you could end up with an illness or be in an accident.
                  The argument I have made is:

                  Companies should be free to pick their benefits they want to give and they need good ones, if they want the best workforce.

                  That’s it, you’re the one that seems to be adding more to this than is required. Your tangent about the military is just a tangent, but the same thing applies, if the military wants to attract the best talent, it needs to find a way to do it and does this through benefits.
                  Last edited by lilpixieofterror; 02-13-2020, 01:38 PM.
                  "The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
                  GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy

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                  • #69
                    Ivanka Trump. Ivanka Trump kicked off her political career at the Republican National Convention taking a stand on paid family leave, promising to make it a policy initiative of the Trump administration.

                    Maybe she has been successful in pursuing an issue which is important part of the family values espoused by Christians and seculars alike (imagine that, Christians and feminists on the same side!).

                    Or maybe Ivanka is just another of the cultural marxist ruling elite....

                    Which one best describes Ivanka and her push for paid family leave?

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                    • #70
                      Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                      My company used to give out 6 sick days a year, and 1 week of vacation.
                      That ain't a lot.

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                      • #71
                        "We can provide six weeks of paid maternity leave to any mother whose employer does not offer the benefit" Donald Trump, President of the United States.

                        IS Trump right or wrong?

                        It appears the Rubio's bill is languishing in committee, without any sponsors willing to bring the bill forward. Which raises the question of how committed this administration is to Ivanka's pet project.

                        Could it be just an empty appeal for the women's vote ahead of the election? His other initiatives do have a significant amount of arm twisting.

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                        • #72
                          Originally posted by Leonhard View Post
                          That ain't a lot.
                          That was just starting out. But compared to Europe, it's terrible. My sister in Germany gets like a couple of months vacation, spa days, and whatnot.

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                          • #73
                            Originally posted by Sparko View Post
                            My company used to give out 6 sick days a year, and 1 week of vacation.
                            The legal minimum here in NZ is 4 weeks vacation, 1 week sick days, per year. Also there are 2 weeks worth of national holidays spread throughout the year in addition to that. In total it's 36 days of paid leave per year at minimum for anyone working full-time. Most of Europe has pretty similar numbers I think.
                            "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                            "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                            "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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                            • #74
                              Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                              The legal minimum here in NZ is 4 weeks vacation, 1 week sick days, per year. Also there are 2 weeks worth of national holidays spread throughout the year in addition to that. In total it's 36 days of paid leave per year at minimum for anyone working full-time. Most of Europe has pretty similar numbers I think.
                              Is NZ or Europe able to sustain a modern economy while giving those benefits?

                              Do the generous benefits somehow lessen the rights of the citizen within the modern nation state, the Hobbesian Leviathan?

                              Those two questions pretty much sum up the opposition to paid family leave.

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                              • #75
                                Originally posted by simplicio View Post
                                Is NZ or Europe able to sustain a modern economy while giving those benefits?

                                Do the generous benefits somehow lessen the rights of the citizen within the modern nation state, the Hobbesian Leviathan?
                                Well the World Bank's 2019 report ranked NZ the #1 country for their ease-of-doing-business metric. Likewise the 2019 Human Freedom Index published by the libertarian Cato Institute ranked NZ #1 country in the world for human freedom.

                                Apparently those 'generous benefits' which have been in place for over a decade at current levels aren't yet destroying the economy or destroying freedom. But probably any day now...

                                Though I'm not convinced American libertarians know anything much at all about freedom, so I'm skeptical they should be the ones ranking it.
                                "I hate him passionately", he's "a demonic force" - Tucker Carlson, in private, on Donald Trump
                                "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism" - George Orwell
                                "[Capitalism] as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evils. I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy" - Albert Einstein

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