Posted on 06/25/2019 11:13:15 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
Our country is being inundated with people from other countries at a scale far exceeding our existing capacity to economically absorb them.
We need to change our labor laws to create economic places for them.
Overstressed American women need affordable help in and around the house and with children.
What can American families themselves afford to pay for domestic help?
I say themselves because we certainly don't want to create any new federal subsidy program. State subsidy programs would be possible.
My estimate is around $200/week plus room and board for the worker and the worker's significant others.
That $200/week would be a federal minimum.
You and many leftists would say $200/week is very little, but consider that $15/hour for a PPACA-restricted 32-hour work week is $480/week before taxes. If rent takes half of that $480/week, only $240/week is left.
The federal base amount might be for a 45-hour/five-day work week. I use 45 hours instead of 40 hours because the worker's employer often needs time to drive to and from a job. Keep in mind that the worker doesn't need to pay for a car or state-mandated motorist liability coverage, but the worker's employer normally does.
The 45 hours might include 40 hours of child care work by a worker and five hours of yard work by the worker's spouse or child legally entitled to do such work.
An adjustment of say $1/hour might be added for each hour of overnight child care supervision and $5/hour of disabled adult care outside those 45 hours.
All other work might be at the generally applicable state law minimum wage rate. A worker might do some cleaning or yard work for a neighbor of the worker's main employer.
There would be no deduction of the worker's pay for the worker's room and board. For other persons residing with the worker, such as a spouse or children, a deduction of up to $30/week per additional person might be allowed, plus a charge of up to 20% of the additional person's outside income.
The worker's spouse might get in 40 hours of outside work a week. If this is at a $15/hour rate, the 20% charge could be $120/week. This would cut the employer's net cost for domestic help to $80/week.
Many of these jobs would be in gated communities. A gated community to call home would be of great comfort to those fleeing other countries in search of safety.
And think of the children of the workers. Instead of living in Camp USCIS they would be living in nice houses kept immaculately clean by a parent, in the school districts of people who can afford domestic help.
Should states be able to insist on a higher work week base amount minimum? I think only if they agree to pay the full welfare costs of all asylum seekers choosing to reside in the state.
There is also the factor of paying for the schooling of the worker's children. A state tax of up to say $20/week on the domestic worker and twice as much as that on the worker might be allowed to be placed on the employer. This could come to as much as $3,120 per year.
The tax could be levied on employers even if their workers don't have school age children, further helping fund schools and preventing employment discrimination.
State law should have to provide exemptions for employers unable to afford to pay for the school funding tax.
This act would be every bit as constitutional as the US signing onto an asylum treaty.
Having domestic workers live in the houses of their employers means these workers don't overload the limited supply of affordable housing in the United States.
Obstruction of justice?
Do any of you think Sanders will see the inside of a federal penitentiary for his actions?
If I am reading this correctly, you are suggesting that state taxes be used to subsidize “domestic help” for those who want household workers?
On what basis should any state be involved in such a scheme?
On what basis should anyone else have to pay taxes to support such a scheme?
Being responsible for myself is enough - in so many ways. Can’t imagine being responsible for a “maid”, her significant other, and a collection of rug rats. And, on down the road, there will be reparations for creating more serfs. This is another terrible liberal idea. Wonder how many of these folks Cher, Babs, Rosie, Whoopie, and the gang will hire. They can afford this. I can’t. Double quadruple no.
About 40 years ago (where does the time go?) I spent a week in Mexico with a fairly well off family. They had one home in Mexico City and another near Cuernavaca. They had a family of servants for each house. The dad acted as chauffeur, yard man, pool man, handyman, etc, mom and the kids did the cooking, cleaning and other housework.
So, the lady of the house would tell the cook what she wanted for each meal, and it would be served. Afterwards the dishes would be washed, etc. The house was always clean—everyday it was cleaned. Beds were made, laundry was taken care of, etc etc. I have to say it took a little getting used to—maybe about 10 minutes.
While the servants were paid very little, they got to live in a nice house (maybe half the time the family wouldn’t be there) wore they ate reasonably well. But I don’t know if the kids went to school or not.
I like the way you think!
“My estimate is around $200/week plus room and board for the worker
What if she’s hot and friendly? “
Never “do” the help.
Heck, I remember growing up in the 60s and seeing MANY TV shows where middle class Americans had maids and whatnot. The Brady Bunch, Maude, Courtship of Eddie’s Father, Hazel, etc.
TV isn’t exactly a reflection of reality, but the notion that families had servants wasn’t bizarre.
Poor people need a home, need access to food, need some spending money. It wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world if a lot of two-income families had servants again. One problem is the do-gooder labor laws which would force any servant to cost a family about $150,000 — for healthcare, social security, retirement package, workman’s insurance, etc.
I don’t see this sort of thing related to immigration at all. A lot of low-skill Americans should be employed as domestic servants rather than just be supported by taxpayers.
Heck, I remember growing up in the 60s and seeing MANY TV shows where middle class Americans had maids and whatnot.
My wife’s ex in-laws had a full-time cook in Cairo, IL, but Cairo was a pretty much southern town. I imagine middle class whites in the South did utilize black cooks and maids, long after the practice died out elsewhere.
I have a housekeeeper that comes every 2 weeks. Yes, she’s a legal Mexican. And I love it. I’d love to be able to have someone come about every other day and just spend the day cooking, cleaning, doing laundry. Come in the morning and leave after the kitchen is cleaned and dinner is done. I’d need a bigger house though with a different floor plan otherwise she’d get on my nerves. Lol. Our 2000 sq ft with the kitchen in the middle of it would put her right in the middle of the house all day.
Hit the donate button a few times or go away...troll.
You talk like a “moderate” leftist and then make little inferences that you disagree with leftists, while trying to find ways to sell leftist ideas and then lay it on President Trump as the reason you feel compelled to do so...
Well looking at the census paperwork of my ancestors they all had at least one and up to three live in help.
Usually housekeeper/cook, nurse, and groundsman drivers
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