{"id":70161,"date":"2019-03-04T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70161"},"modified":"2019-03-04T07:31:24","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T13:31:24","slug":"sick-of-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=70161","title":{"rendered":"Sick Of It All"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Legislature is considering&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.revisor.mn.gov\/bills\/text.php?number=HF5&amp;type=bill&amp;version=1&amp;session=ls91&amp;session_year=2019&amp;session_number=0\" target=\"_blank\">government-funded sick leave<\/a>.&nbsp; The legislation is incredibly complex and detailed but this is the first I\u2019ve heard of it.<br>Where\u2019d the proposal come from?&nbsp; Did an advocacy group assist in drafting it?&nbsp; Who?&nbsp; I seem to recall&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.alecexposed.org\/wiki\/ALEC_Exposed\" target=\"_blank\">Democrats fuming<\/a> because the American Legislative Exchange Council had assisted with legislation.&nbsp; Who assisted with this legislation?<br>Aside from that, I wonder about the public policy implications.&nbsp; If the government will pay my sick leave, what incentive does my employer have to offer sick leave?&nbsp; None, of course.&nbsp; Will this legislation cause employers to abolish sick leave the way Obama Care caused employers to abolish health insurance benefits?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course it will.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And administering the program will create yet more jobs for the political class, serving as a transfer of wealth from taxpayers to them.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Legislature is considering&nbsp;government-funded sick leave.&nbsp; The legislation is incredibly complex and detailed but this is the first I\u2019ve heard of it.Where\u2019d the proposal come from?&nbsp; Did an advocacy group assist in drafting it?&nbsp; Who?&nbsp; I seem to recall&nbsp;Democrats fuming because the American Legislative Exchange Council had assisted with legislation.&nbsp; Who assisted with this legislation?Aside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70162,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70161\/revisions\/70162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}