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The market cares nothing for your flawed mercantilist ideologies, Teahadists.
that is a brilliant insight.
too bad Paul didn't think of it.
in the first sentence of his post and all...
don't these dickheads know the Obamacare Bunny will leave free universal healthcare in their baskets?
All this talk about "Obamacare" expenses is such bullshit. Guess who has no extra costs due to the ACA? Decent employers who give their employees an insurance option.
You are only being asked to pay a little more because you already treat your employees like shit.
If they really cared about the money rather than just fucking people over for short sighted "revenge," they would be at the forefront of demanding a universal option. Eliminate their healthcare costs for good.
What cost?
Be specific.
Let us help you out:
"The market cares nothing for your flawed socialist ideologies, Obama."
He claims to pay $5,000 to $6,000 per year for each of his full time employees. If he has 40 restaurants, with 35 employees per restaurant, then he can get a group plan that is much better than that. I know of companies smaller than that who got better rates.
He should just raise his prices if he has to, to do the right thing and cover his employees. By adding the surcharge, he is making a political statement.
It's not just restaurant owners, believe me. There are lots of similar jobs out there.
And yes, the owners are used to treating their servers like piles of shit who do not deserve medical treatment if they get sick or hurt. God knows, the employees can't afford treatment out of pocket.
It's another case of, "I've got mine, fuck the rest of you!"
Anyone know of a list of restaurant owners (or other employers) who are being dicks this way?
I'd really like one for Colorado so I know where NOT to go. And if there is a list of employers who support Obamacare, I'd like that too. Thanks.
Some sick waiter breathing on your Grand Slam Breakfast is the "current" state at his Denny's reasturants.
This is pathetic crybabying and it'll probably lose him more business than the higher price would have on its own.
As I said above (@10), I'm unlikely to eat at a Denny's, anyway. But assuming, for the sake of argument, that all restauranteurs are going to feel a crunch, and they will all have to raise the prices by 5% to cover health care costs for employees (as part of the listed price--not as a politically labled surcharge"), I return to the second part of what I said, above. I can afford an extra fifty cents on a plate of food far more easily than a waitress can afford health care under the current system.
(The big story in the next 5 years will be talented professionals who quit their corporate gig to start a small business because now they can get insurance for their sick kid. Watch and see. These whiners are just giving the next wave of entrepreneurs a wider niche to fill.)
That's really the logical conclusion to tipping in the first place. Restaurant owners won't compensate their employees fairly, so we, the customers, have to do it.
1.) Maybe he assumes that anyone already eating at Denny's feels they have no other choice.
The story I heard, and which seems credible, is that during the Second World War, the wage controls in effect made the provision of health insurance about the only good employers could offer employees at a time when the workers were being worked particularly hard.
Add the negative power of the word 'socialism', the system's working fairly well for the Good People (and very well for the Best People), and a great deal of inertia, and you have the current situation.