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[POLITICS] State Finally Does something good for the people

9 hours of debate on this when they have mere days to approve a budget, time management is not one of their strong suits..

reply to Kommie
How is this good? When businesses can not afford to pay for vacation time, and they lay off employees to make up the difference, will you still be for it?

Businesses are closing left and right, everyone is leaving the state, and now you are celebrating more costs on these businesses that are struggling to survive?

I guess your username is appropriate.

In Canada everyone is guaranteed 12 sick days and 3 weeks vacation, and their economy is doing better than us.

The boo hoo economics of 5 sick days for people don't make sense.

reply to Kommie
If you have 100 employees making minimum wage, this law will cost a business $32,000 per year.

That is a lot of money, and can make or break a business.

reply to Kommie
This adds cost to doing business in our state. Though as it affects companies that employ over 50 it may be a non issue as most probably provide vacation and sick time already.

People often like to compare the U.S. to Canada, Europe, even Mexico. Claiming on alternate occasions that one of them is somehow superior. Yet the migration is from Canada, Europe and Mexico to the U.S.

I recently had a discussion with a former Mexican who was telling me how beautiful, inexpensive his former homeland was compared to America. Sigh ...
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"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

reply to harlenm
If a company with 100 employees cant afford the price of a new car a year, they deserve to be out of buisness!!

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reply to Kommie
While I like the thought of people being taken care of by their employers, legislation that increases costs to business in CT will only serve to drive even more businesses out of state, and prevent even more from coming here. Don't forget the exodus of UPS & Stanley for starters. The "state" stood by boppin' their baloneys while the two companies spent millions to leave, and thereby saved themselves money. Very little to nothing has improved since.

We had two CT tax audits in the last years of our little CT business. The first CT auditor shows up in a brand new Mercedes station wagon, and the 2nd in a brand new Lexus. At the time, I was driving a 12 year old mini van. If that were a movie, it might be funny. It wasn't and it isn't. Working xx hours per week to feed the state's number one industry - state employees and bureaucrats - was just two more nails in the coffin that drove us to close up.

reply to Kommie

George Carlin: "It's Called the American Dream Because You Have to Be Asleep To Believe It"

reply to Kommie
I'm not even going to respond to you. You obviously have no idea what it's like to run a business, and how much we are taxed to death everyday.

Just take more money from the hardworking and give it to the lazy.

reply to Kommie

reply to Kommie
'Shock And Awe' Statism
By George Will

Epiphanies are a dime a dozen among congressional Democrats as they discover urgent new reasons to experience the almost erotic pleasure of commandeering other people's money. For example, freshman Rep. Alan Grayson, a Florida Democrat whose district includes Disney World, was recently there and was inspired.

The world, he realized, would be a sweeter place if Congress mandated that all companies with 100 or more employees provide a week of paid vacation to those who work at least 25 hours a week. After three years, they would be entitled to two weeks, and companies with more than 50 employees would have to start providing a paid vacation week. Grayson would not mandate that paid vacations be spent at Disney World...

»www.realclearpolitics.com/articl···758.html

i'd just factor in the cost into my employees raise...or lack of one for 3 years.