“Liberals have yet to realize that if you increase costs on businesses, they’ll just pass those costs on to their customers.”
On an earlier thread, the Governor said something like “this minimum wage is intended to be covered by the employer - not the consumer.” As if that doesn’t make him an idiot enough, it is Mark Dayton, of the huge clothing store in Minnesota (son, grandson, or something). One would think that he would understand that EVERYTHING in a business is paid by the consumer.
The only reason they think they aren't paying for the other vendors insurance is that (1) those guys are in a business where it's required, so they already have it and know to figure the cost in their quotes before they deliver the quote, and (2) those guys are in businesses where it's required, so they can spread the cost over all the customers. That's what I told them. First, I can't go back and spread this over all the other customers and even if I could it wouldn't be fair, because they're not the ones making me buy it, AND, what income is it that you think these other vendors have that would allow them to buy the insurance without getting the money from their customers such as yourself?
The big secret is that the pols DO know this.
The end game is to raise taxes. They get static when they raise it on the population.
Instead, they do this by proxy, raising the costs of doing business, and let the business pass it on.
More money to the state, and business gets blamed. What is not to like? /s