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if we are serious about benefits for everyone then make it available to everyone: healthcare, retirement options, sick days, unemployment remove the tax benefi
by foogazi 6y ago
if we are serious about benefits for everyone then make it available to everyone: healthcare, retirement options, sick days, unemployment
remove the tax benefits around employer health plans, or exclusivity of 401k plans
Then it doesn’t matter if you have a hotdog cart, shine shoes or are a white collar worker.
- amluto 6y agoDecoupling health care from employment doesn’t actually require making it universal. Private individual insurance would also work. (I’m not advocating for this — I’m just pointing out that private insurance does not require employment, and the US could easily get rid of the incentives for employers to provide insurance.)