Paid Sick Days Bill Could Raise the Bar for Working Californians

Where is the $$ for all these paid sick days going to come from?

Let me tell you what's wrong with your thinking:

First off, who are you, or anyone, to tell an employer they have to pay for employee sick days? Many small business owners can hardly pay for their own sick days, much less employees. Paid sick days are a privilege, not a right. Please learn the difference. In fact, even working for someone else is a privilege, not a right. People should be glad they have a job, & government should be encouraging people to be self-reliant & creating their own jobs - not penalize those who do open up their own businesses by placing additional mandates on them. That's totally counterproductive.

I'm self-employed. And although I'd love to expand & hire others to help me out, I absolutely refuse to - because once I do, I'll have a bunch of power-tripping ego-maniacs masquerading as do-good legislators, breathing down my back telling me I have to pay for this, that, & the other for those whom I'm already paying wages to. So your system of making mandates on me has backfired. I won't hire others which means there are more people unemployed.

Explain that to your unemployed constituents. Tell them the truth - tell them they don't have a job because you've passed so many freakin' laws telling employers how to run their business & intruding into their finances (which is none of your business), that we won't hire them & they can lose their homes, go broke, & die of hunger because you legislators don't know when to back off nor do you have a proper perspective of the role of government - which is to protect our God-Given, not government-given, rights. There is a difference. Governments do not give rights to anyone. Only God has given us rights we are born with - the right to live, the right to do whatever we have to to take care of ourselves, the right to seek happiness, etc., we are born with the right to live as free beings as long as we're not harming others. Taking care of others is an act of charity. Forcibly taking from one & giving to another is not charity. Once charity becomes mandated, it is no longer charity - it is socialism, communism, tyranny. People are not born with the right to sick leave. They aren't even born with the right to get hired by someone else. They are born with the right to take care of themselves, to be responsible for themselves. We are not born with the right to force others to take care of us. We are not born with the right to make others' our slaves. As long as you are forcibly taking anything away from others, you are an elitist - not an equal. Learn the difference.

Haven't you noticed how society seems to abound with mediocrity? Know why? Because too many laws have been enacted that make it practically impossible for employers to fire poorly performing employees. And who suffers? Everyone. The employer suffers because he's paying wages to an incompetent employee, patrons of the business suffer because they have to deal with incompetent employees in the course of conducting business, and even the poor employee suffers because without having to learn the real facts of life & getting their act together, they'll just skate along being mediocre in everything they do, as if life owes them everything they want. (your laws are creating a nation of spoiled brats is all)

All these laws guaranteeing that people will get what they want has created a society of mediocre half-wits who are supposedly the backbone of this supposedly great country. Truth is, the U.S. has drifted far far away from the principles it was founded on & is no longer guided by the principles that were the backbone that made it a great nation. Instead, it is becoming more of a socialist/communist state with each law that is passed. If you think that's OK, then you don't know, or appreciate, the freedoms God gave you when you were born. And you are definitely NOT AMERICAN!

Tell me - Is California located in the United States, and in agreement with the U.S. Constitution & the Bill of Rights, or is it a subsidiary of communist China?

um, the paid sick leave bill has been dead for weeks in maine - in fact, it never had any 'traction' here at all...

We offered 3 sick days and in the first 2.5 months of the year every employee has used theirs up if it went up to 7 days could they make it to May? This is another classic political dumb ass attack on small business thanks to all those folks that want a paycheck and not a job that want their employer to Mommy them and tell them it will all be OK and here some money. I hope if this happens the government will step in and reimburse the business for loss revenues the employee cost the business due to not showing up and maybe they can also call my customers that are expecting us to be there that day and deal with how Peeed Off they are because they took a day off work to meet my service person that now won't be there because they didn't feel like working today. Now they have to call 2 people and reimburse 2 companies and it may not end there what my customer had customer he was serving? WOW it's the American Dream own your own business who ever votes for this please also get a tatoo on your forehead with a giant L on it so I don't hire you we all need less of your kind of thinking.

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