Give up half your profits...or half your employees?
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Corruptbuddha
Governor
They say that they'll have to lay off a few. Others will become 'contractors'.
More unintended consequences of Obamacare.
More unintended consequences of Obamacare.
BrianDamage
Council Member
Corruptbuddha
Governor
Not really.
It's a proven fact that you can maintain a pretty high level of production with fewer employees....if you're smart about it.
It's a proven fact that you can maintain a pretty high level of production with fewer employees....if you're smart about it.
BrianDamage
Council Member
Sure, but if you can lay off half your work-force without losing any profits, why the hell are you employing them? You shouldn't hire an employee unless they generate, directly or indirectly, more revenue than the amount they cost you.
Corruptbuddha
Governor
I never said you wouldn't lose ANY profits. Just that you can keep a high level of productivity with fewer IF YOU HAD TO.
Companies do it all the time.
The bottom line is this:
1: Pay for insurance: Lose over half of your profits.
2: Pay the fee: Lose about half of your profits.
3: Drop employees: Lose maybe 1/4 of your profits.
It is VERY obvious which way most folks will go, isn't it?
Companies do it all the time.
The bottom line is this:
1: Pay for insurance: Lose over half of your profits.
2: Pay the fee: Lose about half of your profits.
3: Drop employees: Lose maybe 1/4 of your profits.
It is VERY obvious which way most folks will go, isn't it?
It would seem that the author of the article doesn't believe in checking facts. The article says the bakery would have to raise prices by 4 percent to cover a $108,000 tab for healthcare insurance for their 90 employees. Pardon me for picking nits, but .04 * 8,000,000 is $320,000. So clearly the amount they'd have to tack on their prices is more like .013. So adding two cents on a $1.00 item is going to drive customers away?
Neither, of course.
After reading the Times story, I'm convinced a pretty easy solution is available. The bakery advertises as a high quality bakery. They manufacture, according to their website, over 200 products. Some, such as fancy cheesecakes made for hotels, likely have a bit more elasticity; raise them a dollar to the hotel. Work out better deals with your suppliers, take advantage of your size.
Let's see...they charge hotels/restaurants $24.95 for their cheesecakes, 14 servings per cake...$1.78 per serving to the restaurant...which charges...what...$7. They have some room for adjustments.
http://www.bakedinthesun.com
Corruptbuddha
Governor
Seems to me that the bakers themselves would know more about thatmmarket than we do.
Lapcat
Governor
Unintended? What makes you think it is "unintended"? Either Obama and his leftist cohorts are the stupidest sons of b-itches on the planet......
or...
they are right up there with the Marxist/Bill Ayers form of "How To Take Over" via anarchy and/or deliberate destruction of a nation.
Either way....it should be considered impeachable-worthy....
if not High Treason (worthy of 'other' punishment).
or...
they are right up there with the Marxist/Bill Ayers form of "How To Take Over" via anarchy and/or deliberate destruction of a nation.
Either way....it should be considered impeachable-worthy....
if not High Treason (worthy of 'other' punishment).
Well then...cut half your work force, send the rest of them into a funk...send productivity into the dumper...hell...just close the doors, who needs mini muffins and cheesecake?
Corruptbuddha
Governor
Hell....I need cheesecake!
the increase needed for that $24.95 cheescake would be .32.....or .02 per serving.
Corruptbuddha
Governor
And what would the competition charge?
It's just like the Papa John's silliness. It was going to cost him 15 cents a pizza...Papa John's gives away pizza, discounts them constantly...and he went on a tirade over 15 cents per.
A 10 inch cheesecake from The Cheesecake Factory is $52. A 7 inch is $26.95
Lapcat
Governor
Point is.....in a struggling economy that never has really emerged from the first 2008 recession....
why, logically, would government further penalize business by forcing small businesses to have to make that choice?
If you manage to come to the conclusion and answer to that question....
you might actually discover what government, under the Obama leftists, is REALLY trying to accomplish.
Hint: It ain't good for America, for Americans OR for our freedom, our American heritage and/or our lifestyle.
why, logically, would government further penalize business by forcing small businesses to have to make that choice?
If you manage to come to the conclusion and answer to that question....
you might actually discover what government, under the Obama leftists, is REALLY trying to accomplish.
Hint: It ain't good for America, for Americans OR for our freedom, our American heritage and/or our lifestyle.
