"GQP: The open borders are a mess, this is Bidens fault.
Biden: Ok here is legislation that will begin to tackle the problem.
GQP: NO! This is too much of a crisis to solve in 2024! Lets go on vacation."
As usual, and I've had to post this way too many times on here, Dems can't stand when their pork gets denied. Dems don't care what is in a bill as long as it is titled with something their platform agrees with. A Dem could submit legislation that says, "We will give everyone free money every day. Additionally, every citizen will have to report to their local precincts so that a person can punch them in the face 5 times...every day." and Dems go "AWESOME, FREE MONEY!!!" Reps want foreign aid and border protection to be considered two separate topics. Whether or not you agree with that is not the problem, everyone has valid opinions. But attacking them and making up stupid hypothetical situations that don't relate to their actions in any way just makes Dems lose more and more credibility.
And, on that note, and this cannot be argued or debated in any way, Biden is now a racist and xenophobic. The only response Liberals have ever given regarding strengthening our borders is that to do so is racist/xenophobic. So, when you go to the polls, just remember you are voting for a racist. Go ahead, comment all you want to try to mask your hypocrisy...you can't. It's written plainly. If you can't understand it, it's your reading comprehension that is the problem, not Reps or Dems.
Good article but the author misses the actual reason why the RTO. Mostly it's big businesses/high profit-low margin companies who are mandating it. And that's because they get tax breaks for every butt in a seat. If you've never seen how much money is saved in taxes that subsidize other parts of a business, you would be incredibly shocked. I work with a lot of startups and help them build out their program and not one of them that began after 2015 has a work from office mandate. And that's because they never had an office in the first place (many of them) and are making lots of profit without it. But the big companies depend on those tax breaks.
And also consider offshoring saves money. This is part of the argument because I just saw a week or two ago a job offer that literally said at the top that differentiated them and said workers on shore must live near an office location but workers in India (literally named India) were excluded. So companies are OK with someone working 8000 miles away in who knows what kind of office environment but someone living in the next state from them is excluded. That's because offshoring already saves them gobs of money.
That being said, there is a problem with WFH and that is the government is not getting the income they usually get. That is a very real problem because the roads and everything else to those buildings are used for a lot more than just those buildings, so losing money to spend on infrastructure is a very real issue. My problem is when they try to justify RTO with nonsense excuses, like the ones mentioned in this article.