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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (92690)	10/31/2008 1:02:26 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 541580

If they cut other non wage items would it still have been enough to attract you? If they provided you with decent insurance, and then cut or eliminated it without raising your pay would you have not considered working elsewhere. The half of your SS retirement pay (and also half on any disability pay that you at least had a chance at getting) is a benefit like the money they spend for your health insurance, except its involuntary on their part. Also even taxes that seem much less connected to you effectively depress your wages. A number of studies have shown that the group that gets the largest net hit on corporate income taxes is workers not corporate stock holders. And that's a tax that is less tied to the fact that they are employing you. Its exactly because "they ain't gonna give me a dime out of the goodness of their hearts", that they are effectively going to try and pass increased cost of employing people off on their employees.