Last week after the bill was signed, Spanberger had a hen party with her supporters where they gleefully cackled about what a great day it was, lacking the cognitive ability to understand the monumental waste of resources and human productivity they had created. None of these feel-good cacklers has ever run a business or created a job in the private sector. To say that the bill is a ginormous invitation for massive fraud is much like saying Dolly Parton has big boobs. Duh! If you stump your toe, 12 weeks. Twelve weeks to help your allegedly “sick” friend. Every woke liberal woman will be eligible for 12 weeks (severe mental illness), and the same woman will be eligible to care for one of her woke, mentally ill (extremely bitter) girlfriends.
The cost to adequately monitor the free giveaways would likely exceed the almost incalculable costs of the program itself. Then there are the lifetime payroll deductions for every worker in Virginia to pay for other people to “go on holiday.” There’s the cost of compliance for employers, who are also taxed. Profits will suffer as employers can’t fire employees for going AWOL for 12 weeks, and of course there will be massive litigation by the plaintiffs’ bar, which will find new ways to get employees to lie so they can sue business owners and get more freebies.
Government policy should instill virtue — most importantly, individual responsibility and self-reliance. The damage this bill does to the social fabric is more harmful than the bad math. It’s repugnant to me to think of a man taking 12 weeks off because his wife had a baby. A new father should be working harder than ever. Instead of buying $8 lattes, new pairs of skinny jeans, and going to Taylor Swift concerts, how about saving money and being a man as opposed to mooching off the public? Families have been having babies for millions of years; now suddenly we need government help to have children. My God! The insufferable entitlement! We already have too many fat, blue-haired freaks who think the world owes them something.
There’s more estrogen-induced bad math. Virginia’s own Planning and Budget Office estimates that the Virginia Employment Commission will spend $64 million to build the computer system, $6.7 million in additional operating expenses, $77 million in 2027 startup costs, and $39 million in 2028. An additional 314 state employees will need to be hired. It estimates that by 2031 the program will cost $2.1 billion per year, all of it coming from workers’ wages. Of course, as is always the case with government estimates, actual expenses will be many multiples of what the government “experts” predict.
Woke math and feel-goodism — could anything be more destructive?
