I must have run into his clone Friday when I was getting a haircut. After listening for awhile I asked a simple question.
As a businessman what incentive do I have to expand my business, or start a new one, if all I see is increased taxes, regulation and possibly forced unionization?
Never got an answer.
You hit on something here that I thought would be mentioned sooner. The CARD CHECK vote that will soon come. These employers will find themselves with union empowered employees, whom they will not be able to fire, whose pensions, health care, sick days, vacation days, guaranteed raises etc....they will be forced to underwrite.
The auto workers’ union killed the auto manufacturing business in this country. Even now, as these companies are biting the dust, the union refuses to relent on the back breaking entitlements they forced the auto companies to agree to provide.
Think about it. Men in their early 50’s, “retired” and receiving nearly the same pay and benefits they had when actually working. This amounts to welfare as far as I’m concerned. And the best part, they can still work at other jobs.
In the past when people were living shorter lives, this may have made sense. But some of these men and women live another 30 years or more and these auto companies have to pay until they die.