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In reply to the discussion: The individual mandate: I and others warned that this was coming, too. [View all]quaker bill
(8,224 posts)for decades now. Once the private sector cuts benefits it suddenly becomes unfair for the public sector to offer them. The plutocrats will provide some rationale for why it is necessary, who knows, perhaps Yak herders in Nepal have no pension plan, do we think we are better people than they are? There are people around the world who work for $2 a day and have no health insurance benefits, why do we think we are so special? (the plutocrats will ask)
In a growing economy with a tight labor market salary enhancements and benefits are offered. In a slow economy with high unemployment, salaries and benefits are cut. Usually the FED does not allow a heated economy to last long enough to make up the difference. The FED has been very aggressive inflation fighters for the past 30 years, accordlingly salaries and benefits have suffered. There has been a calls on the right to eliminate the minimum wage.... These guys did not need the ACA to go there, it would have been even cheaper for them to drop healthcare without ACA.