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Local Restaurant Adds Surcharge To Tabs To Pay For Employees’ Healthcare
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| February 17, 2014 10:39 PM
Posted on 02/18/2014 12:42:54 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin
Embrace the suck!
To: Responsibility2nd
Of course the customer has an option not to eat there, but that wasn’t the point to which I was responding.
I’m really confused why people think exposing the hidden costs of obamacare is a bad thing. Is it better to just raise the menu prices and hide it? Seems like good activism to me.
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posted on
02/18/2014 1:37:12 PM PST
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: MrB
Would take that restaurant off my list of places to eat at then
To: BenLurkin
Then raise the damned price so I know what I’m paying up front!
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posted on
02/18/2014 1:38:46 PM PST
by
pgkdan
To: Responsibility2nd
Im sorry, but I dont get whats so stupid about what the critic said.
By paying your bill, you are paying for the health care of the employees, whether it's shown as a separate line item, or bundled into higher menu prices. Otherwise, the assumption must be a) the employer is taking the additional costs out of his/her own profit, or b) the employer has found cost savings elsewhere to offset the additional cost of new health care benefits (smaller portions, etc.).
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posted on
02/18/2014 1:40:14 PM PST
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: Jewbacca
To: jsanders2001
Curious - why would you take this restaurant off your list for specifying and itemizing the costs that other restaurants would pass on to you without telling you why the prices are what they are?
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posted on
02/18/2014 1:42:14 PM PST
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: MWFsFreedom
Any way you slice it, it sucks for the waitersAny way you slice it, it sucks for everybody
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posted on
02/18/2014 1:43:13 PM PST
by
Gritty
(Inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out! - David Horowitz)
To: stremba
If a 10% increase in corporate tax rates, for instance, led directly to a 10% surcharge in the price of consumer goods, maybe the LI voters would be less inclined to favor increasing taxes on corporations.
Bingo! The idea is to show transparency to the people who are stupid enough to think that money for these programs comes out of thin air.
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posted on
02/18/2014 1:45:44 PM PST
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: Jewbacca; Bubba_Leroy
Everyone should have to write a check to the IRS 4 times a year like those of us who are self employed.
Agree, but make it monthly.
And payable only to the state in which the employee resides. Let the states send the check to Fedzilla.
To: BenLurkin
That dumbass does not realize he could just have raised the prices 3%
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posted on
02/18/2014 2:03:23 PM PST
by
Mr. K
(If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
To: MrB
> Curious - why would you take this restaurant off your list for specifying and itemizing the costs that other restaurants would pass on to you without telling you why the prices are what they are?
Because I don’t want them to set a precedent that other businesses will follow until the issue and the effects are weighed.
To: Gamecock
> Do you really think you arent paying for it? Its just being shown to you upfront, thats all.
Before they weren’t required to insure them. Now they’ve given the King the answer he needs to push it even harder. The ACA needs to be repealed period.
To: jsanders2001
It also means you paid more for your food and that more money was stripped from your wallet. Sounds like you support the ACA. I call supporters - traitors.
To: jsanders2001
Won’t it be easier to repeal if more people know that they are paying for it every time they turn around?
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posted on
02/18/2014 2:28:43 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
To: MrB
The IRS will probably have something to say about this, soon, if more businesses start this practice.I wish EVERY business would do this.
Not that anybody ever looks at their receipt from the 7-11 or Walmart.
To: pgkdan
Then raise the damned price so I know what Im paying up front!Okay, so the Obamacare tab goes on the menu.
What's the difference?
To: jsanders2001
Because I dont want them to set a precedent that other businesses will follow until the issue and the effects are weighed.They've been "weighed" and found to be destructive and ridiculous.
If you want to "weigh" the fattest chick in the room, go ahead. Just don't involve the rest of us.
To: bboop
I guess you don't believe in tips then. Nice guy. Please, just don't go around telling anyone you are a "conservative."
To: TigersEye
> Wont it be easier to repeal if more people know that they are paying for it every time they turn around?
People will forget why the prices went up. And if that mindset takes hold the n0 will view it as success and a green light for further intrusions making you pay for it every time. 100 % taxation isn’t even enough for the socialists as long as its YOUR money.
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