The GOP is not letting up... Work Harder And Die (RollingStone)

[Pluvious]

Reminds of the observation of a good Democratic once warned us about the Repuk's ideal "Health Care Plan" :

Die Quickly


Airport workers and supporters march at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on March 7, 2023 in Arlington, Va.
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

Republicans Aren’t Just Gutting Health Care.
They’re Taking Your Sick Leave, Too

Nikki McCann Ramirez
October 12, 2025

Across the private sector and state and local governments, around 26.5 million employees do not have access to paid sick time, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics released this year. The disparity is concentrated among low-income, part-time, and service industry workers, only about half of whom have access to paid sick days. Among the lowest 10 percent of earners, only 41 percent have paid sick leave, while 94 percent of the top 25 percent of earners have it.

In Missouri, voters overwhelmingly approved a referendum guaranteeing statewide paid sick leave, and an increase to the state’s minimum wage. Shortly after the mandate went into effect, Republicans in the legislature repealed it outright. In Nebraska, Republicans tacked on an amendment to a similar law — also passed by referendum — that significantly narrowed the pool of businesses covered, and which employees were entitled to the benefit. The amendment also stripped employees of the right to sue over the enforcement of the law. In Alaska, the state’s Republican administration worked to limit the scope of its own ballot-approved sick leave law via regulations instituted by the Alaska Department of Labor & Workforce Development.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/paid-sick-leave-under-attack-republican-states-1235445210/

[paleotn]

1. The irony is, many of those Nebraska and Missouri voters....

who voted FOR those referendums, then voted Repuke up and down the ticket. When will the rubes wake up?!

[displacedvermoter]

2. Similar to referendums to guarantee the right

to choose, like in Ohio and Florida and Missouri, passed by voters. But many of the same folks voted for Republicans, and guess what is happening to the right to choose?

Ignorant and proud of it, so many of the GOP's base.

[MaineBlueBear]

3. Irony...mind-numingly stupid

Same thing, I guess.