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Lynn's avatar

Who were the 2 traitor Republicans that voted with the Liberal Leftists? This is NOT the

Pennsylvania I remember. The people of Pennsylvania are NOT speaking up and as a result

are being run over. Because, the PA Supreme Court bowed to Fetterman, many votes

should have never been counted for him. He is incapable of doing the job. The other

US Leftists Senators baby him along like he has brains in his head.

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In "standing with ALL workers", has the Pennsylvania Freedom Caucus taken a look, not only at the transcript of Shivaram Rajghopal's 6-June-2023 testimony before the [Federal] "House Oversight Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Energy Policy, and Regulatory Affairs" (published, on-line, under the "Forbes" banner, with the headline "ESG Is A Response To A Broken Reporting Model"...

...but, also, HAS THE PENNSYLVANIA FREEDOM CAUCUS TAKEN A LOOK at the TEXT of the enabling [Montgomery County, Maryland] legislation which established the [former] "Enterprise Zone", in Silver Spring, Maryland (apparently, only in effect until shortly after I started raising a stink, in 2006 or 2007, or so, about the fact that:

a) the law [as I recall] defined a "full-time job", in that "Enterprise Zone" as a "25-hour/week" job, rather than as a "40-hour/week job, with benefits"; and

b) provided tax credits 1spread 10 years?] equal to 80% or so, of the INCREASE in "assessed 'fair-market value'", if a property-owner would renovate, enhance, or build on any commercial-real-estate parcel in that Zone)?

THE REASON IT MATTERS is, that, IF (as Mr. Rajghopal testifies, in the above-mentioned transcript) COMPANIES ONLY HAVE TO REPORT THE NUMBER OF FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES, rather than the wages paid to those employees (or to any other classification of employees or [MetaCapitalism-style] "gig-workers" and "independent contractors"),...

...CAN THE REPORTED STATISTICS BE RELIABLE, if Counties, in States nation-wide, should decide to pass laws that "redefine" part-time work as "full-time", as part of some local, job-creation or "pump-priming" operation or strategy?

What do the Unions have, to say, about 25-hour-per-week jobs being designated "full-time"?

What did the Unions that existed, in Montgomery County, Maryland, 1995 - 2010, actually say, at the time, regarding the Silver Spring Enterprise Zone and its enabling legislation?

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