> Or US voters could do the more efficient thing and ask for nationwide paid maternity/paternity leave, vacation, and removal of “exempt” employees. Who is sup

> Or US voters could do the more efficient thing and ask for nationwide paid maternity/paternity leave, vacation, and removal of “exempt” employees. Who is supposed to pay for that? If it's the employer, they'll just take vacation/leave out of your/everyones paycheck. If it's paid for by taxes, then the most efficient thing would be to just hand the cash to the people and let them decide whether they want to work or not. > And decoupling health “insurance” from employers, dump everyone on healthcare.gov or taxpayer funded healthcare. I agree with the first part, but dumping "everyone" on taxpayer funded healthcare will only create crappy healthcare for everyone (UK) or two-class private/socialized healthcare (Germany) - except it will be worse because of the inherently higher healthcare costs in the US.