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In zee teeth. No free lunch boxes.
Parasite Nation comes with costs... fewer jobs... hidden taxes... everywhere.
But it's freeeeeeeeeee! Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Wrong numb nuts. It's Aints free.
perhaps this will help from the Wikipedia entry on the topic?What is a "vulture capitalist"? Did you mean to type "venture capitalist"?
Vulture capitalist
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A vulture capitalist is an investor who used the clauses of the terms of an investment deal in a company to seize ownership of the company or valuable parts of it outright.[1][2] Whereas a venture capitalist invests in a company likely to succeed in the marketplace and hence show a profit to the investor, a vulture capitalist looks to invest in a firm likely to fail to show a profit in the near term, triggering the takeover clauses, resulting in forfeiture of some or all the assets of the company, with an eye towards selling off the constituent parts, hence showing a profit while destroying or hobbling the company.[1][2]
As for the definition, that doesn't describe a parasitic activity.
post 135.
The definition is clear. it is the difference between helping to build a company and helping to destroy and dismantle a company.
On an individual basis it is very easy to quantify.I have no idea. There are hundreds if not thousands of variables, which would be different for every single individual.
One would have to add up every service received by the government (R) and then one would have to add up all the taxes paid to the government (T). If one could determine R and T, a person whose R > T would be a parasite, while a person with an R < T would be a host.
I think it would be difficult if not impossible to quantify.
It's sad that the government providing health-care to everyone is the bad guy, and not the guy putting the extra cost onto the people, and the workers.
Though this is an argument for a single payer system as well though.
The real question is whether or not I am willing to pay a 5% surcharge at Dennys so that everyone in the U.S. gets healthcare? The answer is a resounding yes.
In zee teeth. No free lunch boxes.
Parasite Nation comes with costs... fewer jobs... hidden taxes... everywhere.
But it's freeeeeeeeeee! Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Wrong numb nuts. It's Aints free.
Is that how it was supposed to work?Did the same guy provide all of his workers better benefits and more pay and reduce the cost of his food by 5% when he got a tax cut under bush?
Yea, didn't think so. Funny, when you give people a tax cut, that's more money that they get because they're amazing, when you bump their cost of doing business by a small amount, the only way to cope is to take it out on their employees by gaming the system.
iLOLHow about people stop going to these establishments that don't give two ****s about their employee's, or customers, and go to business's that at least try to treat every fair, and honestly. We'll see how long they keep these policy's in place.
Well, by this time next year, we should be able to tell if you are right or wrong about this specific situation.I know how the market works, and I know that people not going to their places of business will make them change their tude.
FWIW I find it outrageous that anybody's health care should be tied to anything but there own efforts and ability.FWIW I find it outrageous that my health should be tied to being employed and think there should be options outside of employer-sponsored plans that are actually realistic. Then again, I support a single payer system.
Which includes me. Though interestingly enough I've never had a problem getting insurance, even when I DID pay for it 100% myself.
Healthcare is NOT a Right; regardless of what you might think, believe, or want it to be. It never has been and never should be.
No it is not.The up side to this is that it will give impetus to single payer, which is the best solution to our health care problems.
Propaganda.What is there to admit? It couldn't possibly be any clearer that single payer is the way to go. There are more than 30 countries that have single payer and every single one of them achieves much lower costs for similar results. Duh.
Preexisting conditions?Further, without Obamacare, people with pre-existing conditions would not be able to buy insurance at any price.
There are millions of people who thought they had it all handled too, who now find themselves in your loss column.
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No one should die for the inability to pay for healthcare.
No we don't.We just need to get a proper single payer system already
That is a great argument for the Government to get out of the business of providing for such.Consider: Federal spending is about 21% of the GDP, while medical costs are about 17%, but...
7% goes to Medicare and 2% to Medicaid, both part of the 21% federal spending. Take that out, and you have 12% being spent by the federal government, while 17% is spent on health care. Health care costs more than the entire federal bureaucracy!
What?Am I the only one who noticed Cal wasn't prepared after his business closed (my condolences for that, by the way) and had to rely on a social government program for assistance?Yes in deed. This is what happened to me and my busienss. People stopped coming, couldn't afford it any more, and my employees got unemployment, so did I after closing, the store is still empty but I understand the homeless squat there so I guess you would find that desirable. The traffic I lost helped two neighboring businesses close, the landlord had the center foreclosed on - guess the bank owns it now. Yes in deed the lefts true colors shining through. I use to pay our government about $60k a year in payroll taxes alone - they get jack now because I get zero dollars. I'm fortunate to have squirreled away enough not to be homeless myself, I prepared for it and am fine. I feel really bad for those who got a year of unemployment and still didn't find work - they could care less about health insurance they just want a pay check.
That is a great argument for the Government to get out of the business of providing for such.
That's true.
Not at all.I suppose it is if you blame the high costs on the government.
I don't understand. One cutting hours to 30 so he doesn't have to pay for them means they can buy in the subsidized healthcare marketplace in the future and can qualify for more government assistance. Charging 5% more than all other Denny's is because why now?
I suppose it is if you blame the high costs on the government.
So it is.
And, he's cutting back employees to 30 hours so he doesn't have to provide health insurance to them. I'm not sure why he'd have to charge customers an extra 5% as well, since he's getting out of providing health insurance. Maybe he has to make a boat payment or something.
I guess his employees will still have to go to the emergency room and stick the paying customers with the bill, just as they did before Obomneycare became law. What a great system we have.
Because now, on top of the added burden of regulatory compliance, he has to pay additional taxes because he doesn't purchase health insurance. That's just part of the cost of a stupid program that takes the problems in our health care system and doubles down on them.
Am I the only one who noticed Cal wasn't prepared after his business closed (my condolences for that, by the way) and had to rely on a social government program for assistance?
Said the man on tricare.
In zee teeth. No free lunch boxes.
Parasite Nation comes with costs... fewer jobs... hidden taxes... everywhere.
But it's freeeeeeeeeee! Yipeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Wrong numb nuts. It's Aints free.
BS!Anyone who deliberately ignores this isn't serious about costs.
Meaning that Henrin and Zimmer for starters aren't really looking for an honest discussion.
An honest discussion on healthcare has to address the status quo and the alternative. Complaining about a proposed solution while never addressing the existing system is pretty dishonest. Effectively, those who never address the status quo are implicitly arguing that it is right and just to continue the brazen theft of premiums. Apparently it's wrong to redistribute money via taxation, but it's okay to redistribute healthcare via theft.
Dishonestly runs deep in many people here.
Sure lets just eliminate people from the discussion because they earned something right?Frankly, anyone on TRICARE should be legally barred from discussion healthcare other than to discuss how government healthcare such as TRICARE sucks.
What their profit is, or what they do with it, is none of your business.Respouting the lies of the rich.
Dennys has about 10,000 employees, so the fine they will pay is only $20 mil. They have over $400 mil in profits WITHOUT charging more for
anything.
Its just more retailiation agianst the masses.......
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