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14 days of paid sick leave and up to three months of paid family and medical leave Those seem like pretty specific limits. What other limits do you feel are m
by Goronmon 7y ago
14 days of paid sick leave and up to three months of paid family and medical leave
Those seem like pretty specific limits.
What other limits do you feel are missing from the bill?
- vonmoltke 7y agoI think tomp is talking about a time limit on the validity of the legislation itself, not the provisions in it.
- ApolloFortyNine 7y agoObviously the OP here means on how long 14 days of paid sick leave and three months of paid family and medical leave will remain the case. If it's indefinitely, then this is clearly Democrats trying to attach what they've campaigned for to a Coronavirus bill, in an attempt to make it seem like Republicans are the ones holding up Coronavirus support. If it's the rest of this year, then it likely should be passed.
- crooked-v 7y agoIf those provisions go away, then they just become a problem again within a few years when the next novel coronavirus strain appears, and in the meantime all the money spent on setting up the necessary bureaucracy has been wasted by just chucking all it out the window.
- ApolloFortyNine 7y agoLike it or not, guaranteed medical leave and guaranteed sick leave has been a political issue for decades. It makes sense in times like these of course. But it's been 50 years since there's been a panic similar to this over a virus. Attaching something permanent to a disaster relief bill is a scummy political move.
- crooked-v 7y agoI see nothing scummy about it. It's a low cost (several billion dollars per year, compared to $3 trillion in tax revenues) way to nationally, permanently reduce the impact of this and all future outbreaks. If it's worth doing at all, it's worth doing right instead of just throwing something out there that will only help in this specific situation.
- ApolloFortyNine 7y agoI haven't run the numbers on giving every employee 2 weeks of paid sick leave and 3 months of paid medical leave. But I find it really hard to believe this adds up to only several billion dollars, given there are over 150 million employees in this country.
- crooked-v 7y agoSo, bump that up to $50 billion a year. What does it matter? The Iraq War cost $157 billion per year with no impact on the day to day lives of US citizens, so we can obviously afford that much without needing to stress about it.
- pmiller2 7y agoThe real disaster is that every American worker doesn't already have these benefits.