1790 Mr. Williams the Great
Some of Gladstone's ideas seemed a bit... unrealistic to the former chairman of the Progressive Party Committee.
He planned to have a good chat with him later, but not now.
It was not that he wanted to let Gladstone do whatever he wanted, but that he had just come to this point and achieved what most people could never achieve in their lifetimes.
Everything about him was inflated by this result. If someone told him at this time that "your idea is a joke", would he listen?
No, he wouldn't.
Everyone becomes extremely confident and more conceited when they achieve great success.
They don't think they will lose, make mistakes, or be the next loser, so it's best not to say anything at this time, just wait quietly for a while.
Gladstone's inaugural speech was held in the party. There were some reporters on the scene. In his speech, he talked about the past, present, and future of the Progressive Party.
His speech was very passionate, fully aroused people's emotions, and showed the temperament that an important figure of the Progressive Party should have!
He strongly advocated the replacement, modification, and deletion of some unreasonable old systems, and promoted the establishment and passage of new things that conform to social progress and change in Congress.
He suggested increasing the concern for the lower and middle classes of society, listening to their ideas, and solving their difficulties.
In the picture he described with words, a more three-dimensional "Gladstone" emerged in people's minds, and some people directly became his followers!
Lynch also watched the entire speech on the spot, and at the end he stood up at the same time as everyone else, with a smile on his face and fierce applause.
But it was not so clear whether he was cursing in his heart.
The outbreak of the war did bring a lot of changes to the federation. If there had been no war, perhaps these changes would hardly have happened so quickly and so realistically.
In early May, Lynch was invited to attend a hearing. The participants were all celebrities, or basically big capitalists, or some related people.
The content of the hearing was the new proposal after the amendment to the social security system reform was passed, that is, the hearing of the "Proposal on the Social Security System for Enterprise Employees".
Lynch gave Mr. Truman some small tips at the beginning. Now these tips have become the key to the passage of the social security system reform. Naturally, it must be taken seriously by people.
The one who was "on trial" was the initiator of the proposal, Mr. Williams. When Lynch saw him this time, he was different from before, mentally!
Before, Williams was asked by Mr. Truman to reform the social security system, which would inevitably offend many people. At that time, he gave people a feeling of lack of spirit.
It was as if he had completely accepted his fate and obeyed. His face was full of sadness and fatigue.
But now, he has become high-spirited, with shiny hair and high-end formal clothes, plus a confident smile and eyes on his face. His mental outlook is completely like a different person!
After the social security system reform was passed, he received a lot of support from the middle and lower classes. Every day, someone would write to him to thank him for everything he had done for the federal working people.
Some people also suggested that he run for president, and those people said they would vote for him...
Every day, someone affirmed everything he did, and with the support of public opinion, he had more confidence.
Now he is planning to find an opportunity to enter the Senate, and the chance is not small.
Public opinion is a wonderful thing in federal politics.
You can say it is not important, because many times behind-the-scenes deals are often more important than the support of the people!
The one with the highest voice is not necessarily the final winner every time!
But if you say public opinion is not important, once it comes to various direct elections and general elections, public opinion will become extremely important, more important than anything else!
He now has a foundation, and he will have opportunities in the future.
The hearing went very quickly and was a bit boring. In Williams' proposal, companies should be one of the socially responsible parties and bear corresponding social responsibilities.
Yes, this sentence sounds familiar, this is what Lynch said before.
The social responsibility of entrepreneurs!
Now it is used by Williams at the hearing, which may be one of the reasons why Lynch can come.
In Williams' statement, companies are the most important part of society, and in a relatively closed environment, some of their responsibilities have overlapped with the federal government!
So companies must bear these social responsibilities!
It sounds like it is adding pressure and burden to the enterprise. In fact, the capitalists sitting in the hearing are about to laugh out loud.
Williams divides social security into two parts, the first part is the pension part, and the second part is the medical part.
The pension part means that the enterprise has the obligation to provide employees with more convenient and preferential pension insurance. It sounds like the pressure on the enterprise is very high?
In fact, there is a cognitive misunderstanding here. This proposal actually allows enterprises to sell pension insurance to employees without the qualifications to operate insurance business!
Everyone knows that the insurance business is very profitable!
And it is this kind of insurance business with a very long time span!
Even if the enterprise honestly follows the content of this proposal, just such a long span and the depreciation of the currency are enough to make them full!
Not to mention that there may be some other means and methods here, which give the enterprise the opportunity to cash out less or even not cash out this part of the pension!
Everyone knew from the beginning that this was just a formality!
After all, procedural justice is very important in the Federation. Even if everyone knows that one plus one equals two, before announcing the result to the public, a hearing is still needed to let the person responsible for the announcement tell everyone why he thinks one plus one equals two.
Sometimes such procedural justice is stupid. It will make many simple things troublesome. For example, the judicial evidence collection process must comply with judicial regulations, which allows many criminals to escape punishment.
But sometimes, it is very important, especially when dealing with the public!
Hearings and public announcements of results can show the public the reasons, processes, and results of why it appears around us. If people cannot strongly oppose it before the end of the public announcement period, then they will lose the qualification to oppose it in the future.
Because this is the Federation, and there is nothing wrong with its process!
As the process continues to deepen, Williams finally proposed that enterprises can collect up to 35% of the monthly salary payable from employees every month as the upper limit of enterprise employee pension insurance.
Every year, enterprises need to add a minimum of 2.5% and a maximum of 10% of insurance income to employee accounts as a reward.
Calculated as an employee paying 480 yuan per year for insurance, he will pay 4,800 yuan in ten years, and the company is willing to give a 5% reward, so after ten years, his insurance account will have 6,340 yuan.
The face value of this money has increased by about 30%.
After 20 years, it will be 16,670 yuan, which is 173% of the original principal!
The longer the term, the more money in the account!
As long as the proportion paid is higher, you will get more in the future!
This is only the final result of paying 10% according to the current federal minimum standard. What if it is 30%?
What if it is paid for 30 years? !
More importantly, the part of the money paid by the employee will not be included in the part that needs to be taxed!
That is to say, if a person has 400 yuan a month, he pays 40 yuan for the company's employee insurance, then he only needs to report taxes according to the income of 360 yuan!
It seems that the profit is not much, but it is still a lot of money.
Of course, the companies did not give these money for nothing. While they paid the "insurance rate" to the employees, they were also eligible to use the money in the company's employee pension insurance account under the supervision of the congressional committee.
For the company's own development, financial investment, etc. ...
If the employees all paid this kind of corporate insurance according to a certain proportion, plus their social insurance, when they retired, most people might be able to get more than 1.5 times the current pension!
This is full of temptation for people!
The capitalists were very satisfied. They gave money to the workers, and then the workers returned part of the money to them.
The workers were very satisfied. The number of years of paying social insurance was reduced, which meant that they retired earlier, and with the new policy, their income after retirement was higher!
The politicians were very satisfied, especially the congressmen.
In the future, all companies will have such a business, so they will all be supervised and managed by the new committee, which makes the new committee the most powerful as soon as it is born.
With the power to supervise the company, will you still worry about the loss of the funds you hold?
Everyone was very satisfied with this. Lynch just said a few simple words. They were very perfect, at least from Lynch's point of view.
The hearing passed without incident, and soon entered the public notice period, and the TV began to explain the benefits of doing so.
Someone made a list, telling people that paying 20% to 30% per month is the most reasonable range, and the payment period is preferably up to 30 years!
In this way, when people retire, each of them will have a pension of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.
Add to that the federal government's pension...
Many people even breathed heavily after hearing this, and some older workers even went to the Social Security Bureau to ask about some related matters.
For example, can they make up some money in one lump sum or in multiple installments, or can they continue to pay this fee after reaching the retirement age...
The whole society's attention was attracted by the content of this public notice, and Williams became a hot "big star" and was deeply loved by people...