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Silky Pony to force employers into “paid leave”

The Breck Girl is showing his economic and constitutional ignorance yet again (I know, so what else is new?).  From the AP:

When it comes to helping parents take time off from work, Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards is raising the stakes.

The former North Carolina senator on Tuesday proposed spending $2 billion a year to help states create family leave programs that offer workers at least eight weeks of paid time off to care for a newborn or ill family member. The proposal is similar to those offered by his rivals, but Edwards would put up more money — New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s plan calls for $1 billion a year; Illinois Sen. Barack Obama proposes $1.5 billion.

Edwards also would set a national goal of eight weeks of paid leave for all by 2014.

“It’s really important for parents for families to be able to take this leave, to be able to do it and not lose their income, which is a huge drain on millions of families in this country,” he said at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon.
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Edwards also would require all businesses to offer their workers a minimum of seven paid sick days a year. He said the range of proposals complement his other health and education initiatives.

While he’s at it, why doesn’t Silky just go ahead and pass a law that says workers can’t be let go when companies will no longer be able to afford keeping them around due to such moronic laws? After all, if companies have to pay these extra costs without a return on their investment, they will have no choice but to let employees go.

If someone would be so kind as to point out to me and to Edwards where the Constitution authorizes the imperial federal government to force employers to pay their employees for not working, I would greatly appreciate it.  Thanks in advance.

November 14, 2007 - Posted by crushliberalism | economic ignorance, John Edwards, socialism