Kentucky GOP Unveils 'Handshake with Kentucky' Plan | WFPL

 

The plan will include:

 

Public-private partnership (P3) legislation. The legislature successfully passed similar bills introduced this session by Democratic Rep. Leslie Combs, which was vetoed by Gov. Beshear over its inclusion of amendments that would prohibit tolling on northern Kentucky's Brent Spence Bridge.

 

So-called "right-to-work" laws, which would prohibit the ability of unions to require workers to join as a condition of their employment at a company. Rep. Hoover introduced such legislation this year, where it quickly crashed-and-burned. A recent Bluegrass Poll showed that 55 percent of Kentuckians favor right-to-work laws.

 

A nebulously defined tax reform agenda. "We will reduce the tax burden on Kentuckians," the platform reads, "while making our tax structure more attractive to job creators." Those plans echo a similar approach to tax reform made earlier this year by Julia Crigler , director of the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity's Kentucky chapter.

 

"...legislation that will remove regulatory barriers for the communications industry which desires to reinvest in Kentucky by expanding our broadband internet access," which refers to a recent GOP-led effort to pass the so-called "AT&T" bill, and would be a boon to large telecommunication companies in the state by eliminating public oversight of consumer complaints and prohibiting companies from footing the bill for landline services.

 

Creating a "medical review panel" that would limit the exposure of doctors and hospitals to tort/malpractice lawsuits.

 

The "Responsible Budgeting and Spending Act," which will "require state revenue estimates to be based upon a 15 year rolling average rather than unsupported revenue projections."

Create a task force to examine the growing unfunded liability of the Kentucky Teachers Retirement System.

 

Repeal the employer and individual mandates of the Affordable Care Act by introducing an amendment to the state constitution. The platform includes the language to be used in such an amendment, and will “prohibit any person, employer or healthcare provider from being compelled to participate in any health care system.” The plan does not include how to alternatively provide coverage to over 521,000 Kentuckians whom have obtained health insurance via Kynect, the state's health insurance exchange under the ACA, nor does it accurately portray how the state is actually paying for the Medicaid expansion past 2016.

 

Lastly, the platform pledges to end corruption in the state House of Representatives, including bribery and sexual harassment scandals involving some Kentucky Democrats.

I want to be the guy who gets paid to think up all these names for the platforms.

KY loses a lot of manufacturing opportunities to their neighboring Right to Work states.

KY loses a lot of manufacturing opportunities to their neighboring Right to Work states.

 

That's an excuse. Only people outside of manufacturing or people who are on the company side of manufacturing favor Right-to-Work. People think Right-to-Work is the right way to go but becoming a Right-to-Work state is detrimental to the labor force and sweetens the pockets for corporations. It would be a shame if we go to Right-to-Work. The labor force would lose quality work and only the intellectuals who are in the labor force would survive.

I was grooving on the list till I saw repealing Obamacare. That is an automatic deal breaker for me, just as strong as how Right to Life feels about abortion. I am all for making changes to Obamacare but I am adamantly opposed to repealing it.

I was grooving on the list till I saw repealing Obamacare. That is an automatic deal breaker for me, just as strong as how Right to Life feels about abortion. I am all for making changes to Obamacare but I am adamantly opposed to repealing it.

 

I am the same way with Right-to-Work. I will adamantly oppose any candidate trying to turn KY into a Right-to-Work state.

The anti-worker tenor of the "Handshake" sounds like it was hammered out at McConnell's recent meeting with the Koch brothers.

I'll ask again although I've never heard a legitimate answer. If being in a union is so great why do you have to force people to join? If it's such a great deal you shouldn't have to make membership compulsory.

I'll ask again although I've never heard a legitimate answer. If being in a union is so great why do you have to force people to join? If it's such a great deal you shouldn't have to make membership compulsory.

 

That's because 'legitimate answer' is subjective. People can choose where they want to work. If a person doesn't want to be a part of a union then they obviously don't want that job. Here at Corning you can apply for company or union jobs. No one is forcing anyone to do anything. You make the choice when you apply.

I am the same way with Right-to-Work. I will adamantly oppose any candidate trying to turn KY into a Right-to-Work state.

 

Even though all evidence proves job growth in right to work states dominates non right to work states ? Seems like your ignoring evidence.

Even though all evidence proves job growth in right to work states dominates non right to work states ? Seems like your ignoring evidence.

 

Pure coincidence. Union or non-union doesn't dictate job growth. That's a falsehood Right-to-Workers like to use. A manufacturing plant that is Right-to-Work is still capable of being organized. North Carolina is a Right-to-Work state and there are plenty of factories that have unions in the plant working alongside of Right-to-Work people. A union presence makes factories treat their Right-to-Workers respectably.

I'll ask again although I've never heard a legitimate answer. If being in a union is so great why do you have to force people to join? If it's such a great deal you shouldn't have to make membership compulsory.

 

Why is there such a desire to rid America of unions/working class people? Are the unions getting too close to opposing politicians? The general premise of unions is to keep workers safe at work and to earn a fair wage for their work. Why is that so bad? I just don't get it.

Why is there such a desire to rid America of unions/working class people? Are the unions getting too close to opposing politicians? The general premise of unions is to keep workers safe at work and to earn a fair wage for their work. Why is that so bad? I just don't get it.

Good point. Why have wages been declining and millions of members of the middle class been abandoning the ranks of those who are employed or looking for employment under Obama? Why have real wages declined for the past six years? Why are health care costs for working people soaring?

 

About a third of the jobs created on Obama's watch have been created in a single, right to work state - Texas. Why?

Pure coincidence. Union or non-union doesn't dictate job growth. That's a falsehood Right-to-Workers like to use. A manufacturing plant that is Right-to-Work is still capable of being organized. North Carolina is a Right-to-Work state and there are plenty of factories that have unions in the plant working alongside of Right-to-Work people. A union presence makes factories treat their Right-to-Workers respectably.

 

Sounds like a like a liberal acquaintance who always just ignored the facts when his stance was challenged with the truth. The workers still had the right to organize, has nothing to do with your premise of coincidence.

Why is there such a desire to rid America of unions/working class people? Are the unions getting too close to opposing politicians? The general premise of unions is to keep workers safe at work and to earn a fair wage for their work. Why is that so bad? I just don't get it.

 

No one wants to get rid of middle class workers or unions, they just want to allow for something is very American, choice, based on your personal beliefs. I believe that if a person wants to belong to a union, go for it. On the other hand, if one does not want to join, then they should not be forced to join. Unions have helped to make the country better, but as with all pendulums, unions need to swing back to the center.

Edited September 3, 201412 yr by bballfamily