I want you to think of this as a fight, as in martial arts, boxing, wrestling or any style of weapons fighting. You almost NEVER knock out your opponent in one single move, and nearly never disable them from a single move. Everything is based on combinations that set up your opponent for his demise.
Most often, a series of feints, a few well placed weak blows to move his defenses... and the person is wide open to the REAL damage coming. In other cases, you set them up with a few moves, get them off balance or in a weak position... and then deliver a series of effective blows to disable them.
These $$$ fines are one more in a series of blows. By themselves, they aren't effective... but in combination with other parts of a planned attack, they are incredibly effective. If the county is facing fines, in addition to employee walk-outs, protests, solidarity strikes by other workers, internal sabotage by disgruntled workers, bad publicity, etc... it all adds up to wearing down those county officials.
All it takes is a few belligerent counties to be "corrected" by public pressure... and the others counties will start getting the message too. Beat one of the pack leaders... and most of the rest of the pack will back down. If any other county steps up to demand the vax... then rinse and repeat.
It's also not a small sum, just over 1% of their budget for what I could find quickly, and if they don't comply the next one will be larger. In a balanced budget state this is going to mean cutting some things. This isn't just a dispersible cost, and if they get hit again it becomes cancelling major programs, which when they're pushing for billions in tourism revenue that won't happen if you start struggling to fill potholes.
Yeah the county taxpayers have their taxes taken and given to the rest of the state. Commies in charge don't care then raise taxes in following years to make up for deficit or fed bails them out to show support. All the while the taxpayers get fucked and the politicians play games and no one is held accountable except the taxpayers wallets.
People have commented "So what?"
I want you to think of this as a fight, as in martial arts, boxing, wrestling or any style of weapons fighting. You almost NEVER knock out your opponent in one single move, and nearly never disable them from a single move. Everything is based on combinations that set up your opponent for his demise.
Most often, a series of feints, a few well placed weak blows to move his defenses... and the person is wide open to the REAL damage coming. In other cases, you set them up with a few moves, get them off balance or in a weak position... and then deliver a series of effective blows to disable them.
These $$$ fines are one more in a series of blows. By themselves, they aren't effective... but in combination with other parts of a planned attack, they are incredibly effective. If the county is facing fines, in addition to employee walk-outs, protests, solidarity strikes by other workers, internal sabotage by disgruntled workers, bad publicity, etc... it all adds up to wearing down those county officials.
All it takes is a few belligerent counties to be "corrected" by public pressure... and the others counties will start getting the message too. Beat one of the pack leaders... and most of the rest of the pack will back down. If any other county steps up to demand the vax... then rinse and repeat.
It's also not a small sum, just over 1% of their budget for what I could find quickly, and if they don't comply the next one will be larger. In a balanced budget state this is going to mean cutting some things. This isn't just a dispersible cost, and if they get hit again it becomes cancelling major programs, which when they're pushing for billions in tourism revenue that won't happen if you start struggling to fill potholes.
Will the employees who were fired be compensated? I'd be filing lawsuits immediately.
I’m curious how that amount corresponds to the “donation(s)” made to impose the mandate.
Leon County is where Tallahassee is. (one of the leftist bastions of the state, other than the Governor :) )
So what?
It comes out of the treasury and no one goes to jail.
Yeah the county taxpayers have their taxes taken and given to the rest of the state. Commies in charge don't care then raise taxes in following years to make up for deficit or fed bails them out to show support. All the while the taxpayers get fucked and the politicians play games and no one is held accountable except the taxpayers wallets.
That is not what Ron DeSantis is doing. He is trying to preserve jobs for people who don't want to take a vaccine but like to work!
I was fired from my job. So tbh what he is doing isn't working.
Agreed,. honestly these fines should be equal to the annual pay of every person fired for refusing and then get sent to those people.