So this all started with people getting on yard dog for his plan to provide paid maternity leave (really odd stance for yard dog to take btw). I could be wrong but to me this spiraled from that to essentially all maternity leave is wrong. sys it seems at the point I quoted above you went from hypothetically addressing yard dogs plan to arguing against maternity leave, period.
Now going back through these last two pages it seems to me there are still a couple of posters who thinks we have mandated paid maternity leave, if you aren't one of those people, I apologize. However to contend that workers not on maternity leave pay some price for someone on maternity leave is ridiculous at best.
great, now we are all on the same page. btw, california, where i live and work, does have a law providing some % of paid parental leave, paid out of some sort of tax (i think a payroll tax of some sort, not positive). but that's neither here nor there.
let's deal with your last contention. i have a hard time following your logic. apparently you believe that parental leave comes entirely out of an employers' profits/revenue as a zero sum game? that there is no compensatory effect on employee wages and benefits overall? that is a very strange position to take, and as far as i am aware it is one that is entirely unsupported by either economic theory or empirical evidence.