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A comment on California Attorney General Cracking Down on Workman’s Compensation Avoidance Scams

Mark Anderson — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 23:02:23 GMT

This is a bad, bad idea. The idea that the government can create prosperity by decree is nonsense on stilts. Thus, the only effect of this will be to put people out of work altogether.

Furthermore, Workman's Compensation insurance itself is a scam. We can go a long way towards creating legitimate insurance by getting the government out of the process, in which the government compels people to carry insurance. The idea is to make insurance companies compete.

By the time it is all over, the employers left standing may be carrying insurance, but as workers, good luck getting anything. And if more people do have to collect, what next? Try to mandate more buyers out of a smaller pool of businesses that are left?

Really, all compensation for workplace injury comes down to is prosperity, which is engendered through the free market. Again, the government can do nothing to raise wages by fiat. Let us have a free market, lowering the cost of capital, so that people can actually have dependable investments should an emergency come.

A comment on California Workers Face a Furlough

norris hall — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:04:30 GMT

The state should hire independent contractors rather than stuffing their payrolls with workers who must continue to receive pay, healthcare benefits, holidays, vacation time, overtime, sick days off and all the other perks that go along with being on the government payroll....even when work is slow and the economy is bad.

With independent contractors, when you don't need them or can't afford them, you don't call them. And if an independent contractor isn't working up to snuff...you just don't use him again. Compare that to a state worker who cannot be fired no matter how incompetent.

Plus independent contractors work much more efficiently than state workers because they get no overtime, weekends or holidays. They work however long is needed to get the job done.

And they are far less expensive. No overtime, no paid holidays and no vacations. And once the project is done, you can stop paying them.

One of the main reasons the state is always in the economic poorhouse is the hundreds of thousands of state workers and retired state workers who continue to receive a monthly check and healthcare benefits till the day they die.

Private companies got rid of defined benefits long ago. Only government workers continue to hang on to the gravy train.

A comment on What the Tort Reform Folks Don’t Tell You…

Mike Bryant — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:43:08 GMT

Very good point. Way to get to the heart of the issue.

A comment on What the Tort Reform Folks Don’t Tell You…

Steve Lombardi — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:54:42 GMT

Good article Jim, nice analysis.