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Like 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
by ApolloFortyNine 7y ago
Like 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.