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Originally posted by: twagner
Your employer is cutting back taxes in 2013 for a tax that does not kick in until 2018? And you believe that?
Originally posted by: twagner
Your employer is cutting back taxes in 2013 for a tax that does not kick in until 2018? And you believe that?
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Actually - yes.
With multiple multi-year contracts to negotiate across four states, 2018 only seems far away depending on your point of view. As an administrative employee, while I don't like it, I accept the fact that we are first off the cliff to - so to speak - "set the bar". Or maybe better put - lower the bar.
And depending on the course of said negotiations, there is the possibility that any savings from a devalued plan will simply have to be spent somewhere else.
"My employer" - is an entity. The decision to bite the bullet and proceed in a timely manner was done by employees of the entity - who had to pull the trigger on over-hauling their own coverages. On personal levels, I'm sure they would have preferred to wait as you suggest.
My god, you sound like a battered wife who defends her spouse and criticizes the cops.
Sometimes benefits cuts are justified, necessary, or inevitable. And sometimes businesses do it just because they can. But when they blame it on an event five years hence, they are lying to you. And when you believe it, you are just an enabler.
Sometimes benefits cuts are justified, necessary, or inevitable. And sometimes businesses do it just because they can. But when they blame it on an event five years hence, they are lying to you. And when you believe it, you are just an enabler.