Businesses in Sevier County cannot or will not pay the inflated leases and rents unless they can continue to pay their employees minimal wages and minimal or no benefits. Some businesses offer benefits to their employees but the employees cannot afford to pay their share and do not subscribe. Businesses in Sevier County are subsidized by state or federal government programs such as Tenncare or Medicare and the rest of us.
There is a court case in California, Golden Gate Restaurant Association vs. the City and County of San Francisco that challenges part of San Francisco's new universal health-care access program that requires medium and large employers to spend a certain amount on their workers' health care or pay a fee to the city.
Sevier County should impose a fee upon all businesses whose employees are not covered by a business provided health care program. It is time for the land owners of Sevier County as well as the business owners of Sevier County to get off the backs of the workers and taxpayers and pay their fair share for their employees’ health care.
Until they do, the rest of us are paying for them. When you see a land owner or business owner driving an expensive car, living in an expensive house, returning from an expensive vacation, remember who really paid for it.
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