55 sats \ 12 replies \ @TNStacker 20 Jun \ on: The Problem with Juneteenth econ
I don't like the title. The problem is not with Juneteenth. As always the problem is people. As soon as they made it a national holiday, people in my community said watch all the BS that will follow. Walmart and Target will try to capitalize and others, well, you see it explained in this article.
But don't throw the baby out with the bath water.
All Federal holidays are stupid. Paid holidays to federal and state workers is a scam.
Texas having this as a holiday kind of makes sense but....
Holiday means Holy Day.
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I like California's approach, letting individuals define their Holy Days.
But realistically, in America, commerce is the religion. Holy Days are commercialized and many "holidays" were developed by business associations and lobbies to get people to spend.
Paid holidays for government workers actually reduce total labor costs, because they aren't earning benefits. Unless you think they're missing what would have been productive work, these are good for the tax payer.
I say we should have hundreds of federal holidays.
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I just read this 5 times and now I fully understand. Yes all Federal workers should have nothing but paid holidays. That makes welfare and corporate welfare recipients paid government workers, too.
The pay should be based on how many days they don't come into work. Every year the evaluation is that you can ink your thumbprint or an appendage that you have that doesn't trigger you to depression.
Also the incentive to become a federal employee would be to keep you from peaceful demonstration where you burn things down.
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All government work should be project-based, i.e. temporary, or part-time eh!
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As a start, sure.
It should be made less attractive than work in the private sector. As it is, in many fields, government jobs pay more for less work and more security.
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How so?
My point is that they reduce the cost of government workers. I'm sure we agree that it's better to pay them zero for those days, so paying them less is better than paying them more.
That’s fair
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