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Weaving the Strands: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 2.0

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St. Clown said:
If they're acting as employers and there's no union contract to honor, why couldn't they alter the terms of employment to place their employees onto the ACA exchange and pay the fine? In all other respects their HR groups operate the same as private businesses. I doubt there's anything in the law against it.
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So i'll ask again, why hasn't this happened yet for over 50 employee plans????
 
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Rover said:
So i'll ask again, why hasn't this happened yet for over 50 employee plans????
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Why do you think it hasn't happened? I don't know if it has or hasn't. Do you expect the press to cover such an event? It might make its way into the media, but it won't be big news until a mid-sized city with hundreds of employees makes the switch, if that ever happens.
 
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So i'll ask again, why hasn't this happened yet for over 50 employee plans????
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Because employers like keeping talented workers.

If you're referring strictly to state and local governments, there are probably union contracts in place in the vast majority of them, too.
 
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St. Clown said:
Why do you think it hasn't happened? I don't know if it has or hasn't. Do you expect the press to cover such an event? It might make its way into the media, but it won't be big news until a mid-sized city with hundreds of employees makes the switch, if that ever happens.
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Yes Clown I do expect it be instantaneous news. You've gotta be living in fantasyland if you don't think it would be. The conservative press would be all over it.
 
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joecct said:
A British look at QE.
And it's not Her Majesty.
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By "British" read "British right wing."

The personal links between the paper's editors and the leadership of the Conservative Party, along with the paper's generally right wing stance and influence over Conservative activists, have resulted in the paper commonly being referred to, especially in Private Eye, as the Torygraph.
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So yes, the British equivalent of WSJ opposes a center-left policy. In other news, Mother Jones opposed Margaret Thatcher.
 
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Own. Anyone that tells you different when interest rates are this low is insane.
 
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No, but someone in the article called her the Democratic Tea Partier.
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If only. Paradoxically, leftist economic populists like Sanders and, to a lesser extent, Warren haven't had deep lower income grassroots since WW2. The very people who stand most to gain have the least enthusiasm.

Of course, one way to change that is for the upper class to immiserate the rest of the country, which is exactly what has been happening since Reagan. But my reading is small s socialism in the US is mostly a bauble of high income / high education people. For now.
 
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Kepler said:
If only. Paradoxically, leftist economic populists like Sanders and, to a lesser extent, Warren haven't had deep lower income grassroots since WW2. The very people who stand most to gain have the least enthusiasm.[/QUOTE ] Theoretically. In practice, would you rather be poor in the US or in {socialist country of your choice}. If the former, then how exactly are we supposed to believe that movement toward "leftist populist economics" would necessarily be progress?

Of course, one way to change that is for the upper class to immiserate the rest of the country, which is exactly what has been happening since Reagan. But my reading is small s socialism in the US is mostly a bauble of high income / high education people.
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Rich guilt.
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