shootin the breeze
Missed it by that much
Key takeaway here is that people need to start and build an “emergency fund”. If you have a big data plan on your phone and cable TV, skip both for a year. Delay buying a nicer car or a new TV or phone. It adds up quickly.
Respectfully, you need to look at the whole equation. The employees take home pay is only part of it. No one will work if they aren’t getting paid. If they are disciplined and maintain a buffer, this will hurt them harder and faster than I.
Let’s say I make $100 per year. Gov and Sate get $35. Gov can print more, states cannot. I save money long term, they cannot.
Furthermore, to justify that $100, my company has to receive $200 in revenue. That additional $100 is either taxed or spent on other products or people which are taxed.
On a small scale, they can just replace you and the only loser is you. Considering the number of gun owners and my assumption that the lions share of them are money earring tax payers, I’d say this is a much larger problem for them.
As I write this, it occurs to me how many gun owners receive social security? It seems like it would be a nightmare for them to withhold social security payments from large swaths of the population.
Medicare Medicaid ? “Yeah sorry, until you locate that old shotgun and hand it over, no more blood pressure medication for you..”
I agree with your thinking but if they freeze your accounts that emergency fund needs to be in cash. That is not so easy to do anymore. It can be done but it's lots of trips to the ATM or arranging periodic large pulls from the bank.
Also, I wouldn't put it past them to try stopping some SS payments or withholding needed drugs. You would think it would backfire but it might not given who would be on the receiving end of this (conservative gun owners) and who would be cheering it on (librons).