So once again I propose that the state put forward a General Fund Reimbursement bill that would place a surcharge on all businesses that rely on the state to provide services to their employees that they refuse to pay for so they can pad their bottom line. Let's take the profit incentive for underpaying and/or underbenefitting employees out of the equation.
This is interesting, because even though the vast majority of people receive their medical coverage from their employer, for example, there's no law that says the employer must provide such a thing. It's done out of the kindness of their hearts (if you can believe that it has nothing to do with competition in the labor market).
So if the U.S. Congress passes a universal health care bill, ala HillaryCare, whereby the people will have their medical expenses paid for by the government, that will let corporate america off the hook ... having the exact opposite affect that you want! And there's no "profit incentive" for underpaying and/or underbenefiting employees ... my previous employers found that out the hard way when I regularly left for better offers. You can always go across the street ... that is if you're free of union shackles.
Then there's this:
If someone like Wal-Mart tries to pull a Rubbermaid in Minnesota--telling a company to fold their US plants and open up in China--the state will slap a surcharge on the Wal-Mart type business for state expenditures in retraining the employees who have been outsourced as well as for any welfare they need until they find an equivilant job to the one they had.
Do you think this policy would ENcourage or DIScourage companies from opening up plants in the state in the first place? Having the government trying to dictate how a private enterprise will be run (via taxation, regulation and litigation), is the primary reason why they're going overseas in the first place, because I don't know what that is, but it ain't capitalism.
Maybe the republican government should just own and operate all the businesses. Yeah, that's it.
Dennis Tester Mac-Groveland
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