.paulwaldman1: Many Republicans are haunted by the fear that some person somewhere may not be keeping their nose pressed hard enough to the grindstone.
on employment among recipients, because it doesn’t force people to get jobs. Lazy people exist, of course, but the mythical layabout sitting at home saying, “I just love not having to work, since I’ve got this sweet health coverage” is a fiction. And in practice, work requirements meansrequirements. Recipients are forced to navigate a bureaucratic obstacle course; when they make a mistake, many lose their benefits even when they are working.
But to Republicans, those facts don’t matter. Their unshakable premise is that laziness is such a widespread and urgent problem that the government must sort those “willing to work hard” from those who aren’t, and punish the latter group for their moral failure. Americans put in more hours than workers in most of our peer countries, yet we’re not producing more economic value than they are.
I’d wager that most Americans are unaware that in many of our peer countries, especially in Europe, people believe that work is a part of life, but not your entire life. And the laws there reflect that perspective. The European Union mandates at least 20 days of paid vacation per year — or an entire month off. Many European countriespaid holidays, meaning that in much of the continent workers receive 30 paid days off or more.
How many paid vacation days are required by law in the United States? Zero. We’re the only country among the advanced economies in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development that requires no paid vacation, and also the only one that requires no
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