Posted on 02/04/2018 1:16:46 PM PST by Kalamata
"Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is working with Ivanka Trump to craft a paid family leave plan that will appeal to fellow Republicans, Politico reported Sunday.
“We still have to work on members of my own party. I think there will be significant initial resistance to it, because it’s just not an issue that’s been identified with the Republican Party,” Rubio told the news outlet."
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Ivanka, you're such an elite establishment commie. Please Go Home.
I dunno. I like the free market. If a given company thinks that this will be good for attracting and retaining good employees, more power to them. Just don’t enshrine this nonsense in a law.
Paid family leave is not Conservative.
But it is, IMO, inevitable.
Paid family leave? Why should a company pay for an employee who is not at work? I’m so sick and tired of the socialists on both sides of the aisle.
ZSTUPIS idea from IVANKA!!! Go back to NY!
My Mustang needs a supercharger, so let’s pass laws that make other people buy me one of those too.
And don’t go cheap on it either, guys, or you are a racist...or a Nazi...or something like that.
Foam Boy needs to be replaced before he votes for another amnesty.
I would support a tax free period for new parents.
It’s no mean feat to exceed the “generosity” and largesse offered by the Left.
The Rube will eventually become the Florida version of mcInsane before he’s done.
Doesn’t the new law significantly increase the child tax credit? Isn’t that enough for the gimmie generation?
exactly - of course, the free market only works when it is allowed to actually work “free”.
Sadly, our governments at all levels use regulation to socially engineer people and companies - private enterprises and all.
What right does the government have to tell an employer - you MUST give x amount of PAID family leave for _______________ reasons? It’s one thing to tell a manufacturer they are not allowed to dump toxic chemicals into the local waterway... But to require an employer to expend money for benefits - is about as anti-freedom and anti-free market as you can get!
AS you posted, fhayek, a truly FREE market means employers get to offer what they desire to offer. Employees are then free to decide if they will work for what said employer offers. When the markets are allowed to complete, benefits eventually do grow in an effort to get the best employees.
But like the artificial wage inflation of the “minimum wage” - it de-incentivizes hard work. Why put in the extra effort when you get rewarded no matter how little work you actually do?
Sigh...
Yeah, Marco, things like that should be between employers and employees. Same with wages.
Should have been replaced in 2016, he HAS to be replaced in 2022, if we still have a country.
Paid family leave, like so many other social programs, is not within the purview of the federal government.
it is none of the federal government’s business to impose any kind of ‘family leave plan’ on the American people
(even tho I generally like the idea of family leave, if and when voluntarily adopted)
Rubio is an ass.
Perhaps we should just stick to the definitions used by the Framers of the Constitution when we try to add or detract from programs to "help" citizens which might violate that Constitution's protections and limitations:
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." - Preamble = Constitution of the United States of America"Promoting," and "provid[ing] for" come with vastly different meanings, and the difference in meanings comes with vastly different consequences!
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