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http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/113/hr1406/text
I railed about the GOP being assholes for the party line passage of this earlier this morning on the bookface, but that's a shit venue for a dissection of why.
On the face of it, it's rankly pro-business and anti-worker, which is hardly a fucking surprise. But if you peel it back a layer, it's actively stupid and hurts the economy by taking money out of hourly employee's pockets.
The number one driver of economic growth and activity is consumer spending. Not business pending. Consumers. And people who make an hourly wage (as opposed to salaried executives or investors) spend a much greater percentage of their income... which means that for every dollar they take home, that's almost certainly another dollar that's going to be spent (or pay down accrued debts, or otherwise be circulated, and not end up just stuck into an interest-bearing account).
So, please, authors, sponsors, and supporters of HR1406, explain to me how this bill helps workers or the economy without using the term "job providers" or any other cipher meaning "more money goes to the business owners and stockholders, and less goes to the people who actually do the fucking work."
I railed about the GOP being assholes for the party line passage of this earlier this morning on the bookface, but that's a shit venue for a dissection of why.
On the face of it, it's rankly pro-business and anti-worker, which is hardly a fucking surprise. But if you peel it back a layer, it's actively stupid and hurts the economy by taking money out of hourly employee's pockets.
The number one driver of economic growth and activity is consumer spending. Not business pending. Consumers. And people who make an hourly wage (as opposed to salaried executives or investors) spend a much greater percentage of their income... which means that for every dollar they take home, that's almost certainly another dollar that's going to be spent (or pay down accrued debts, or otherwise be circulated, and not end up just stuck into an interest-bearing account).
So, please, authors, sponsors, and supporters of HR1406, explain to me how this bill helps workers or the economy without using the term "job providers" or any other cipher meaning "more money goes to the business owners and stockholders, and less goes to the people who actually do the fucking work."
