“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“AI is not going anywhere. It has both promise and peril. I just want us to be thinking critically about this from all angles.”
“I’d be worried about a massive economic slowdown. You know, the impact of Wall Street on Main Street, and I’d be worried about job losses.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”

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On the recordApril 19, 1994
the points the gentleman makes are very good. Not only will the mandate cost jobs, because it will not be worth paying benefits for either low-wage positions, and certainly many part-time positions, but others will lose wages, because more will have to go into benefits, and that $28 billion figure that represents people who will not lose their jobs, they will just lose wages, they will lose buying power, because more of their ``wages'' will go into the higher cost benefits that government will mandate. The other point that the gentleman made that was very important for people to understand is that this is not building on the current system.
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Nancy L. Johnson
Connecticut
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Discussing the economic impact of government mandates on jobs and wages.

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