Oh, it sounds SO nice and fuzzy – it’s for the Children, it’s for the Adults, it’s for the Seniors. How could ANYONE be against – yet another government program. Republican Committeeman Steve Duprey seems to be in favor of this:
…Steve Duprey, president of Foxfire Property Management and the Duprey Companies; Brad Sawler, owner of Oxland Builders; and Dee Fitzgerald, a brand manager for W.S. Badger Co….House Bill 628 would establish a fund to be used for paid family and medical leave. Funding would come from either employees or employers in New Hampshire, and funded through premiums that would be about 0.5 percent of an employee’s weekly wage.
Hey, it’s just a cuppa coffee, right? Just one more after the other “just a cuppa”….as I’ve said before, I feel like I’m pulling a tank truck of joe behind me. Just another government program that, well, the private sector can do for itself – right Steve Duprey, you rent-seeker you!
Costs could be lowered as well for both the employers and the employees, which Duprey said he favors. Duprey said that he already has a similar program in place at his company, but the state program could cut premium costs by more than half. “I think this would not be successful if it had an employer burden,” he said.
Ah, I get it! He’s
already put paid family leave into practice. That’s GREAT! It shows what a Progressively looking CEO can do – in spending his own money his way to demonstrate his own values. That is how it should be – let the private sector decide, on its own, if it should offer such a benefit and if it should, how to carry it out. That’s flexibility both in spending one’s own money and how it is to be spent. Free from the heavy hand of government, with bureaucrats and bureaucratic red tape getting in the way, forcing one to generate lots of paperwork simply to satisfy them – and perhaps not meeting the needs of those in need. This is how markets get destroyed – by turning them into third party hellholes like Obamacare did to an already sub-optimal situation where patients were at least once-removed from the provided. At least one can assail an insurance company – how much harder is it to get satisfaction from Government? Unless one is tenacious, time independent, and often, politically connected, there’s a reason that the phrase “you can’t fight City Hall” exits.
Duprey knows this as well as anyone else – being a real estate developer and having to bump government noses (and perhaps, other places) all the time in order to get his business done. Too bad that he isn’t advocating for smaller government
Sidebar:hey, isn’t that a Republican ideal Steve? Or has crony capitalism replaced it? You know, put “politics aside and get stuff done”? You know, being “pragmatic” shuts down the political debate – isn’t that what the Democrat/Socialists keep saying they are, “pragmatic”?
in order to get his work done faster, cheaper, and at a higher quality. But here he is, advocating for MORE Government?
And he represents the NH GOP at the national level??
Yes, it seems like he’s cost shifting – seeing that yet another government program can socialize the cost of his personal/corporate burden. It’s such a good thing, people?
WRONG! This program is for people who didn’t plan ahead. This are for the grasshoppers that refused to act like the ants in that old fable.
WRONG! This is for people like Amanda Sears, a Leftist, who has no problem with growing Government to get involved in every nook and cranny of our lives, for we all know that mission creep will set in and who knows where that will lead to (re: the Mueller investigation, the IRS patrolling political speech, the FCC wholesale reclassifying an entire industry that its authorizing legislation didn’t even know about – you get the picture and this is as much the object of my ire as the program itself because Govt NEVER stops growing itself. And Duprey knows that too.
Look, I feel sorry that run into bad situations – I’ve run into them myself (or better, had them thrust upon me). I did, in the past, take advantage of the Federal Medical Leave Act when TMEW took ill – but I NEVER considered that somebody else should be paying me. Heck, it didn’t matter if I had a job after that time. I had planned for that kind of contingency and put money and resources away to handle it. I still continue to do that – it is the prudent manner in which to go through life.
How much you wanna bet this involuntary program will end up like the State’s Retirement program (which is now at a staggering $5-6 BILLION of unfunded liability) – broke and consistently looking for a bailout because if it can be voluntary, I’m betting that the pool of people opting in will be too small to be self-sustaining and the whining socialist advocates like Sears will come in with the argument “oh, now you want to HURT people because you won’t put more of other peoples’ money into this? Hey, we’re one of the richest per capita States in the country – surely you’ll see fit to vote everyone else’s money to help those poor destitute people who only want to take care of others?”.
Naw, she’d never mention other peoples’ money…but I bet she’d use the other phrases.
And Republican Steve Duprey just gave her cover.
The Bigger the Government, the smaller the citizen
(H/T: Union Leader)
