Paid Family Leave Act Will Have You Paying $10 for a $4 Cup of Coffee

Townhall.com ^ | March 6, 2020 | Veronique De Rugy

[I want the USA back]

That won’t be a problem for the ruling elite, which will just vote itself a pay raise or a cost of living adjustment.

[rollo tomasi]

"What happens to the job while they are out on family leave?"

The court system won't care about businesses, however, they will care about equal protection under the law.



Perhaps maternity leave is a bad idea in general and society should think about embracing traditional roles that produced a sustaining societies since the Bronze Age.

[albie]

I make my own as well. Peet’s French Roast. $8.00 a bag that lasts me 2-3 weeks of every morning coffee. That’s about .40 cents a cup of really good coffee.

[shelterguy]

“”””I firmly believe that if they were Democrat donors we would all be learning in school how healthful it is to “bathe your lungs in cleansing smoke”””””””””

The tar puts a coating on the cancer cells so they can’t grow and stuff.

[max americana]

“Who in their right minds pays $4 for a a cup of coffee?”

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I have money for it but there better be a hot blonde in a bikini serving me that $4 coffee..

[HollyB]

Have a baby and you can go where’d you like.

But with FMLA, in general (which has been around a long time), there’s a lot of paperwork that needs to be filled out regularly.

[Kaslin]

I don’t. I drink my coffee at home.

[livius]

People will just stop buying at a certain point, the companies are all going to automate anyway. This is because customers, including here on FR, apparently do not value human contact, which takes about the same time as a machine but is a good start to your day.

My deli in NY - and then my food cart and then my Starbucks - had my coffee and egg on a roll ready as soon as I walked in. Thanks for ruining this, Dems.

[MayflowerMadam]

“Who in their right minds pays $4 for a a cup of coffee?”

That’s what I thought. I wondered if it was a joke. Guess not.

[rollo tomasi]

"...the companies are all going to automate anyway."

There is a lot of hesitancy of going hard on automation in the future. One of the bigger problems is massive layoffs; the tax rates will spike along with ending a massive amount of deductions courtesy of politicians backed by a overwhelming amount of the electorate who have been laid off looking to survive off beanies. Even the medical industry has robotic threats.

[Taxman]

Who pays $4.00 for coffee?

And, why?

[3boysdad]

Useful idiot liberals. And why? Because they thing they’re being an activist when they patronize those kinds of places.

[voicereason]

Don’t make fun of my Gender Studies degree.

I'll trump that with a degree in Transgender Dolphin Love Studies since this is 2020, and how dare you try to judge me.

[Tax-chick]

All of these facts together make for a very expensive cup of coffee.

It's not going to raise the price of making your own coffee at home.

[Viking2002]

'Gillibrand argues that the act would provide greatly needed benefits to employees at a minimal cost to them. One of her favorite talking points about the proposal is that it would cost employees only $4 a week, or the equivalent of a cup of coffee.'

Where does this ditz spend $4 for a cup of arabica swill? At that price, it better be a small, 100% pure cup of Kona or Jamaican Blue Mountain. And none of that blend crap where one bean in 50 is of certified stock. Even my bean grinder knows the difference, but a lib will buy it for the label on the cup to virtue signal they're part of 'the crowd'. And buy your own damn health plan. God, liberals make my brain hurt.

[Taxman]

Useful idiot LIEberals = dumbasses!

[Ancesthntr]

“Paid Family Leave Act Will Have You Paying $10 for a $4 Cup of Coffee”

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No, what it means is that schiffhole hipster joints selling burned coffee that even my dogs reject will be going down faster than flies at the DDT factory. As it is, I don’t buy hipster coffee - and rarely buy coffee out in any case, since I know that I can make gourmet coffee at home for about $0.20/cup and bring it anywhere I go in an insulated 20- or 30-ounce steel cup. At $10, the only reason that I’m going to go into one of those places is to rob it and whatever moron patrons are sitting there at the time.

[Pining_4_TX]

That is exactly what will happen. People will buy less and businesses and employees will suffer. But, the do-gooders, including Ivanka Trump, will feel good about themselves, and that’s what counts.

As the cost of government and everything else goes up due to these intrusions of the market, it will force more mothers into the workplace even if they want to stay home with their children. Why should families with a stay-at-home parent pay more so that 2-income families get more benefits? The government is determined to force all moms into the workplace to pay taxes and have the kiddies in government-run daycare from infancy. Got to start the indoctrination early and stamp out any kind of independent parenting.

[Pining_4_TX]

This is not about the price of coffee. It’s about the price of government intrusion into the economy and how government makes everything it touches worse. As Reagan said, “The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

[9YearLurker]

Thank you, Ivanka. Deep thinking is not her specialty.