Benefits like paid vacation, health insurance and other benefits are derived from business needs for an effective workforce, obtained by providing a competitive pay and benefits package. Therer has always been a "tradeoff betweem government and nonprofits and their benefits programs being part of their package, and private employers, who measure such things by their ability to make enterprise more effective, competitive, and profitable. Given the fact that charitable, religious and other nonprofit "industries" now equal 16%+ of GNP (over 20% with imputed wages paid to volunteer staff), and with the constant upwards pressure on entitlement programs from progressive solicalist governments, we are continuing the slide towards a much more solialistic form of society. Not good. Social benefits, like morality, may indeed be "legislated" but the practice only hurts our ability to provide overall. Robbing Peter to pay Paul may be a time-worn tradition, but it somehow keeps resurfacing.
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