>Teachers do not seem to realize how rough things are for so many of the people who pay the taxes that fund their position.
We have a small biz with a few employees– less than we used to sadly.
I would be happy to have a job that paid $35 an hour for 40 hours, even if a condition of having it was to work another 20 or 30 hours each week for FREE.
Most self-employed people and small biz owners routinely work many hours for free- it’s necessary. In the current economy, that’s more true than ever.
Paid breaks/vacations etc? I have not had those myself for many years– if I don’t produce, I don’t get paid. And unless we continuously find new clients, projects and ways to cut costs, we can’t stay in business. No one pays us for that time either.
Insurance? This year we had to move to a $5000 deductible plan – we had a lower deduct but the carriers dropped those plans on renewal and/or raised the co-insurance etc after deduct is paid. These are HSA type plans.
Even with that $5K deductible, the premiums for a family are about $1000 a month.
Pension? Well, we still have a profit sharing plan, but past sev. years have not been able to contribute to it. Had to lay off some people too, again no other choice.
We used to be able to partially fund employee HSA accounts as an extra benefit. However a new part of Obamacare is kicking in and the percentage employers can fund such accounts has been reduced. Had to sign a bunch of “attestations” regarding that along with getting the new insurance.
So far, Obamacare has also resulted in premiums going up by much larger percentages than before it was enacted. Even the new $5K plan we had to move to went up 20% over its cost last year per info the brokers gave us.
The teacher/orig. poster doesn’t seem to realize how rough things are for so many of the people who pay the taxes that fund their position.
Tell me where to show up to get the gig the teacher has, I have an advanced degree too and so does one of our employees. What the orig. poster calls “draconian” seems pretty good to me.
