Bernie Asks: Why Does The Status Quo Candidate OPPOSE The FAMILY Act?

[marmar]

from the Working Life blog:



by Jonathan Tasini


Along the long list of claims obscured by magic dust the status quo candidate regularly sprays around—the you-have-to-be-drunk-to-believe her sudden opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership (a trade deal she once called the “gold standard” which, I wager, would be a “gold standard” again at the appropriate time, with a change of 10 words and a comma cuz after all it would be “different”), opposition to the Keystone Pipeline, the phony-baloney tough-on-her-bankrollers from Wall Street (You know the ones she represented in New York because, oh, 9/11) and well the list goes on and on—you can add the being an advocate for families.

Put simply, she doesn’t think a family is worth somewhere between $1.38 and $1.61 per week—the price of a small payroll tax to fund the FAMILY Act, a bill proposed by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, which Bernie is a co-sponsor along with 19 other Senators; Rep. Rosa DeLauro has proposed the House bill which has 112 cosponsors.

What would the bill do? Per Senator Gillibrand:

The “Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act” or the FAMILY Act would create an independent trust fund within the Social Security Administration to collect fees and provide benefits. This trust would be funded by employee and employer contributions of 0.2 percent of wages each, creating a self-sufficient program that would not add to the federal budget. Benefit levels, based on existing successful state programs in New Jersey and California, would equal 66 percent of an individual’s typical monthly wages up to a capped monthly amount that would be indexed for inflation. The proposal makes leave available to every individual regardless of the size of their current employer and regardless of whether such individual is currently employed by an employer, self-employed or currently unemployed, as long as the person has sufficient earnings and work history. In this way it would apply to young, part-time and low-wage workers.

For example, the average woman worker earning the median weekly wage would only need to contribute $1.38 per week (for a total of $72.04 per year) into the program, and even the highest wage earners would have a maximum contribution of $4.36 per week, or $227.40 per year. This means that for less than ONE tall brewed Starbucks coffee ($1.85) or about the cost of ONE venti latte per week (over $4) we could create a program that will be so beneficial for our families. The average full time working woman earning the median weekly wage would receive a total of $5,514.48 if she took the full 12 weeks of paid leave. Operating the trust fund through the Social Security Administration would enable the program to capitalize on a number of administrative efficiencies thus decreasing the need to create new bureaucracies.

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The problem in our country is NOT that our taxes are too high. That’s Republican bullshit that Democrats regurgitate—the elites, the party hacks, the DLC-types, the lobbyist-funded politicians of which there are too many and the Wall Street Democrats (Wall Street having invested millions of dollars in the status quo candidate and her husband, through huge campaign contributions and six-figure speaking fees to give for an hour speech (to actually say zero of value—it’s all about legalized corruption and buying access), a payoff higher than most Americans would ever earn in an entire year). ...................(more)

http://www.workinglife.org/2016/01/08/bernie-asks-why-does-the-status-quo-candidate-opposed-the-family-act/

[Betty Karlson]

1. Very good question.

The answer is one more reason to never trust Clinton.

[CorporatistNation]

2. Plenty More Questions of this Nature To Come I Suspect...

As the trend for Clinton is peaked too early and as the voters become increasingly familiar with Bernard, the fortunes and prospects of Clinton Inc. have begun to diminish. Amazing... People are beginning to actually THINK for Themselves and look past The establishment Owned MSM!

[CorporatistNation]

3. K AND R!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, marmar.

[joshcryer]

5. She doesn't want to be tied to a "tax hike"...

...but Sanders support for the FAMILY Act truly shows he's a man of integrity.