They’re the gang that couldn’t shoot straight... but they can do damage anyway

Couldnt agree with you more! Of course we now know Joe Pennacchio leads the big-government radicals! 

Do what I am doing... Moving to PA.

I'm just waiting for the offices to become available and the inital contingent of 20 or so folks will follow. A group of others, who live in NY State, will be moving into a NYC office. It's funny, but it's cheaper now for in-state New Yorkers to work in NYC than it is to work in New Jersey. This state has lost it's business advantages.

Just one thing, it you do move, move further than 50 miles. 80% of your workforce will either not transfer or quit within the first year. Then you can hire cheaper local labor without all of the baggage.

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The worst part, is that you have PFL, which for a $100K employee is $100, not $33. The $33 figure is an 'average' income amount. Then there is the business costs of managing that new burden, keeping the fund filled if employees use it since the tax rate will increase if the employers pools drops below a certain amount, and also the loss of the employees when on leave.

Since roughly 80% use this because of childbirth or child care after birth, women or young families may be descriminated against it.

Low income families won't use it because of the fear of losing their jobs when they return. Private companies may blacklist employees taking this time off so many of them won't use it. This is geared mostly for large union shops - only. So what happens is that low-income and private sector folks will be subsidizing the union workforces benefits. THIS IS AN EMPLOYEE TAX!

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Business is taking two other hits.

One was the Supreme Court who just expanded  worker disability claims and their reasons for taking a claim.

The other is this new Universal Health Care, which will cost employers hundreds per employee each year.

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The non-business savy folks in Trenton don't understand that there are several components to business expenses, such as raw materials, building expenses, and employee expenses (just to name a few). If the employee expenses go up, then the slice of the pie earmarked for employees is used to pay these increases and taxes. This leave less for the employee to get in the form of pay increases, job advancements and bonuses. These fees and new expenses DIRECTLY impact the employee's take home pay!

“I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessities and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds, as the people of England are, our people, like them, must come to labor sixteen hours in the twenty-four, give the earnings of fifteen of these to the government for their debts and daily expenses; and the sixteenth being insufficient to afford us bread, we must live, as they now do, on oatmeal and potatoes; have no time to think, no means of calling the mismanagers to account; but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow suffers. Our land-holders, too, like theirs, retaining indeed the title and stewardship of estates called theirs but held really in trust for the treasury, must wander, like theirs, in foreign countries, and be contented with penury, obscurity, exile, and the glory of the nation. This example reads to us the salutary lesson, that private fortunes are destroyed by public as well as by private extravagances. And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for the second; that second for a third; and so on, till the bulk of the society is reduced to mere automatons of misery, to have no sensibilities left but for sinning and suffering. Then begins, indeed, the bellum omnium in omnia, which some philosophers observing to be so general in this world, have mistaken for the natural, instead of the abusive state of man. And the fore horse on this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.”

-Thomas Jefferson