Do we now have proof that it's us "little people" who will suffer under OBAMATAX?
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/07/03/is-this-news-a-crushing-blow-to-obamacares-credibi.aspx
The article indicates that businesses have already started cutting their workforces and the hours employees will be working so they won't have to comply with the mandate. Notice that the article says business owners won't have to pay into health care premiums, but if an employee's health care premiums take up 9.5% of the employee's gross pay -- or more -- business owners will have to pay a penalty of $2,000.00 to $3,000.00 per employee. The goal of any business is to make money, so why would any business owner be willing to p!$$ away at least $2,000.00 a head?
Notice also that the implementation of OBAMATAX for mid-to-large-sized companies has been delayed until January 1, 2015, but the individual mandate still goes into effect on January 1, 2014. That means those of us in the "working class" who don't have insurance right now can either pay out of our own pockets for a whole year -- and pay whatever the health care companies care to charge -- or pay a penalty to Uncle Sam. How is that in any way FAIR to the people Obama claims to represent? How can anyone honestly say the hard-working middle-class isn't getting screwed here?
And people wonder why the Dems passed the so-called "Affordable Care Act" in the middle of the night with no open discussion or "transparency" that was promised by Obama...
Zombie -- I have a real job and have health insurance, thank you very much. I don't take kindly to a dictator that says "You WILL have health insurance or you WILL pay," I don't take kindly to my tax dollars being wasted on people who are perfectly able to work but choose not to, and I don't take kindly to a government that obviously delayed the full implementation of OBAMATAX until after the 2014 elections purely as a political tactic -- Once again, FAIL