Minimum Wage
What's up with that crazy minimum wage, anyway? It's not like anybody could actually live on that, could they? Could you? What if you had to live on it some day? Plus, it's dragging our salaries downward.
Minimum Vacation
Our favorite paycheck party proposal guarantees anyone who works 30 paid vacation days a year, plus holidays. Could save the travel industry in one fell swoop and reduce unemployment drastically.
Minimum Health Care
If 47 million people are working their rear ends off for bosses too cheap to buy them health care insurance, then why not pass a law making it illegal to not give it to them? No more deductions from your paycheck, either. Not in the paycheck party way of doing things!
Minimum Severance Pay
Severance pay is the money bosses get when they quit or get fired for doing an even crappier job than they usually do. It's time to give this great benefit to everyone else in the company, too. Not just the boss and his buddies, but all of us.
Why privatize social security when it works fine just the way it is. Sure, it's not enough money to live on, but that's where a law requiring businesses to save money for when you are ready to retire for you is needed. And you keep it even if you quit or get fired, too.
Every boss you ever have should pay into your own personal pension plan, in addition to Social Security. You should be provided with a quarterly statement and a guaranteed return. When they fire you, you get to keep it, even though you can't withdraw any money from it until you start collecting your Social Security. When you get a new job, your next boss pays into it just like the last boss. Your bosses can't touch the money. It's yours.
You can see why an idea like this has never been proposed or concieved of by any politician before: There's nothing in it for the boss at all. All the boss gets to do is pay and he can't play legal and accounting games with it. It's so straightforward that you can probably be certain that no politician will ever adopt something this easy to understand and difficult to rig for the benefit of the rich bosses and their buddies the bankers.
It's not something that's very difficult to imagine, either. It's something that anyone who works for a living would have to like. The fun part, of course,is seeing what kind of howls of protest and indignation will come from the bosses and their rich buddies in the media when they hear tell of something so simple and obvious and good for almost everyone in the country. The torrent of lies from the economists and politicians and newspaper columnists and radio show hosts will positively comical to hear.
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If you make a lot of money but are kind of afraid that if you step out of line you might lose it all click here.
If you make a decent amount of money but are living from paycheck to paycheck and nervous about that click here.
If you don't make nearly enough money compared to what you ought to then click here.
If you are a minority or simply feel disenfranchised, click here.
Everybody else can click here and just see what comes up.
But don't even click on any of the links above
if you think it's getting pretty obvious that no matter who you think you are, you are just a person who gets up and goes to work every day and is tired of being ignored by your own elected officials. I hope you are starting to get the idea that 'divide and conquer' is the simple and effective strategy that the politicians and bosses have been using for years to keep us confused about what they should be doing for us.
