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Well NAFTA has been tried and we all know how that has worked out for us.
Most favored Nation status for China has been tried and it is still killing American jobs.
In short what we have been doing isn't working either.
Perhaps, but the point is that companies don't hire until they have a need.
should be fun. If I were him, every now and then I'd let something bat crazy pass.
But heres the thing...if the Republicans start trying to pass crazy stuff....its going to really hurt them. So they need to pass some only mildly unreasonable things. But I dont think they can help themselves but to go all out hardcore with crazy things like moving social security into the stock market for example.
They also do not hire when the future is unknown...like the employer mandate that continues to be pushed out...
Still not really an issue. If you don't have enough employees to serve your customers then you either hire or lose sales and market. WMT found out the hard way that people won't shop if they don't have the merchandise on the floor. Sure, companies won't want to offer benefits if they don't have to, but they are operating as if the mandate is in place.
The GOP was proposing only 2% to be invested in the markets, not the entire balance. You don't pick individual stocks in a 401k, you pick managed funds.
Well NAFTA has been tried and we all know how that has worked out for us.
Most favored Nation status for China has been tried and it is still killing American jobs.
In short what we have been doing isn't working either.
So I guess the first bill they will tackle is repealing NAFTA?
Still not really an issue. If you don't have enough employees to serve your customers then you either hire or lose sales and market. WMT found out the hard way that people won't shop if they don't have the merchandise on the floor. Sure, companies won't want to offer benefits if they don't have to, but they are operating as if the mandate is in place.
It is an issue if compaies want to expand. Small businesses need to know, WMT is large and has a high turn over anyway.
My company is considered a small business and we DAMN sure ain't operating as if the mandate is in place...and I don't think others are either.
The first bill the newly minted GOP Congress should pass for US job creation should be to permit companies to bring their overseas profits back to America TAX FREE. That will allow businesses to expand HERE.
I am all for it however I don't think it will create incremental jobs.
How many of those offshore headquarters are mailing addresses?
Business expansion here depends on the ability to sell our stuff, there. Why should a corporation pay a competent US PHD $250,000, plus bonus, when equally competent PHD in India will do the job for $50,000?
It is an issue if compaies want to expand. Small businesses need to know, WMT is large and has a high turn over anyway.
My company is considered a small business and we DAMN sure ain't operating as if the mandate is in place...and I don't think others are either.
What's in the mandate? Do you know?
Yes. Companies are mandated to provide insurance if they have more than 50 FTE's. There is more to it than that, like subsidies for small companies, coverage for 95% of the workforce by 2016 if the average wage is $250K+, penalties for not providing coverage, etc., etc.
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