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Jack M. Stewart’s Sept. 2 commentary, “Davis Must Rein In Antibusiness Efforts,” sounded more like Chicken Little’s cry that the sky is falling. What Stewart failed to point out in his antiworkers’ compensation benefit increase diatribe was that workers’ compensation benefits have not been raised in over 17 years for over half of the permanently partially disabled workers in this state. Since 1993, members of the employer community, including members of Stewart’s California Manufacturers’ Assn., have enjoyed billions of dollars in savings of their workers’ compensation costs, which have not been passed on to their injured workers in terms of higher benefits.
To imply that businesses will leave California because of a benefit increase is absurd, but it is the type of scare tactic that one would expect from the haves who refuse to share with the have-nots.
ROBERT I. VINES
Applicants’ Attorneys Assn.
Redlands
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Stewart’s lament about “antibusiness” bills in the Legislature was brazen. The bills, of course, were pro-employee.
MICHAEL JONDREAU
Santa Monica
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