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Raise your hand if in the past 30 mins, you googled something? thought so.
I'm not going to stop using Google just because I think this policy is bad. Boycotts are stupid IMO and I've never participated in one. I'm sure there are plenty of things going on in companies that I disagree with, doesn't mean I won't keep buying whatever they are selling though.
"On Thursday, Google is going to begin covering a cost that gay and lesbian employees must pay when their partners receive domestic partner health benefits, largely to compensate them for an extra tax that heterosexual married couples do not pay. The increase will be retroactive to the beginning of the year."
This doesn't mean they pay gay people more than straight people. They are making the playing field more even. The fee that they are compensating for does not even apply to straight married couples. And the extra subsidy doesn't apply to single gay people.
A recent news article said that Google was going to insure fairness for its employees. Heterosexual couples enjoy tax advantages that gay couples do not, so this is an attempt to right that wrong. Good for them, I say.
Seems to me, as a single person... I don't get the same tax breaks as married couples either... so shouldn't I get a higher salary?
Always seemed backwards to me. As a single person I have no one to share expenses with, and yet my tax rate is higher?
Seems to me, as a single person... I don't get the same tax breaks as married couples either... so shouldn't I get a higher salary?
Always seemed backwards to me. As a single person I have no one to share expenses with, and yet my tax rate is higher?
That's a great argument. It is an example of social engineering and control by gov't of our lives and life decisions, but let's see if the teabag folks want to attack that one.
Seems to me, as a single person... I don't get the same tax breaks as married couples either... so shouldn't I get a higher salary?
Always seemed backwards to me. As a single person I have no one to share expenses with, and yet my tax rate is higher?
You think that they are doing this because they give a crap about equal rights? They could care less, this is nothing more than a company who is serving political agenda and pissing on their employees to serve such. That company deserves the harsh response of a capitalistic system, one where the actions of the company results in the consumers speaking with their money and putting them out of business.
Not surprising that the lead lobbyist for Google is now part of the White houses administration.
You think that they are doing this because they give a crap about equal rights? They could care less, this is nothing more than a company who is serving political agenda and pissing on their employees to serve such. That company deserves the harsh response of a capitalistic system, one where the actions of the company results in the consumers speaking with their money and putting them out of business.
Not surprising that the lead lobbyist for Google is now part of the White houses administration.
This was a bottom-up initiative within the majority-straight staff of the company. My boyfriend has been checking the list servs - NO backlash. And Google employees are not shy about disagreeing politically on the listservs.
If they don't like it, they can choose to go somewhere else. Google employees take a rather large pay cut to work there for both the benefits and the opportunities that exist within the company. Even with the horrible economy, if employees have a problem with what their private company does, they can find somewhere else to work. Isn't that always what Republicans say?
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