Minimum Wage
What's up with that crazy minimum wage, anyway? It's not like anybody could actually live on that, could they? Could you? What if you had to live on it some day? Plus, it's dragging our salaries downward.
Minimum Vacation
Our favorite paycheck party proposal guarantees anyone who works 30 paid vacation days a year, plus holidays. Could save the travel industry in one fell swoop and reduce unemployment drastically.
Minimum Severance Pay
Severance pay is the money bosses get when they quit or get fired for doing an even crappier job than they usually do. It's time to give this great benefit to everyone else in the company, too. Not just the boss and his buddies, but all of us.
Minimum Pension Plan
Why privatize social security when it works fine just the way it is. Sure, it's not enough money to live on, but that's where a law requiring businesses to save money for when you are ready to retire for you is needed. And you keep it even if you quit or get fired, too.
If 47 million people are working their rear ends off for bosses too cheap to buy them health care insurance, then why not pass a law making it illegal to not give it to them? No more deductions from your paycheck, either. Not in the paycheck party way of doing things!
The majority of those without health insurance also have full-time but low paying jobs. Full time part time jobs are given out instead of full-time jobs to avoid paying for perks like health insurance. The paycheck party wants mandatory health insurance for for every employee in the country, full or part time, including waiters and employees of small businesses who traditionally moan and groan about not being able to afford health insurance. It's simply amazing how badly the bosses treat the lowest paid american among us. The rest of us find it pathetic, but we have our own problems with health care insurance from our bosses, too. They are shifting more and more of the cost on us and we have little choice but to watch our paychecks dwindle away under a steady onslaught of deductions.
The paycheck party wants everything about your paycheck to become very very simple. There should be a law that says you get paid the amount the bosses promised you and not one single penny less. Deduting anything from your paycheck should be a federal offense and any boss who does it should be locked up for the rest of his life as a common thief.
If the bosses have to give you some kind of health care by law, they will simply have to pay for it and if they don't like the prices they can argue with the insurance companies about it instead of milking their employees dry. If it's too difficult to do, the government can simply offer some version of Medicaid for employees at whatever price they think the bosses will like and use that as the baseline for the benefits of any other health insurance they offer, so that nobody will be stuck with any cheapskate plans that don't cover anything.
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if you think it's getting pretty obvious that no matter who you think you are, you are just a person who gets up and goes to work every day and is tired of being ignored by your own elected officials. I hope you are starting to get the idea that 'divide and conquer' is the simple and effective strategy that the politicians and bosses have been using for years to keep us confused about what they should be doing for us.
