Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The Employer Mandate Is A Goner
The American Prowler ^ | 6/5/14 | David Catron

Posted on 06/06/2014 1:18:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway

The Left finally abandons one of its dumbest ideas.

Conservatives have long known that Obamacare’s employer mandate, if implemented, will create harmful distortions in the labor market and damage the economy. The mandate will force small employers to rebuff workers they would hire in its absence, and it will incentivize large employers to replace full-time employees with part-timers. When conservative policy experts and business groups first pointed this out, however, Obamacare supporters robotically recited the usual canards about close-fisted capitalists who value profit more than healthy employees. But a funny thing happened on the way to the midterms — the President delayed implementation of the mandate until after the election.

Why, if it presents no potential harm to workers or the economy, would the President defer implementation of this particular provision of Obamacare? The answer, of course, is that the pain inflicted by the mandate on real people would inevitably hurt the Democrats next November. His congressional accomplices thus went to the White House and implored him to save their sorry political hides, whereupon he reluctantly and illegally delayed the mandate’s go-live date. This, however, put Obamacare’s pimps into something of a bind. Having assured the public that conservative warnings about the mandate amounted to little more than fear mongering, they were suddenly obliged execute a dizzying verbal pirouette.

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; aca; employermandate

1 posted on 06/06/2014 1:18:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

The fines for not having insurance too....

wait a minute, so the law changes again... without Congress?

Law of the Whim....


2 posted on 06/06/2014 1:19:05 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Interesting if true.

[no employer mandate] == [no ObamaCare]


3 posted on 06/06/2014 1:28:24 PM PDT by Steely Tom (How do you feel about robbing Peter's robot?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

The article says Obama delayed the mandate, not killed it.


4 posted on 06/06/2014 1:28:38 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

If they think delaying the mandate until after the midterms will save them then what does that say about the ‘16 presidential election when, by then they will have implemented it?

Then they will be out of the frying pan and into the fire. Every democrat who supported this crappy regime and their crappy, idiotic health takeover scheme should be ushered out of Washington.


5 posted on 06/06/2014 1:40:35 PM PDT by Bullish (You ever notice that liberalism really just amounts to anti-morality?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: RoosterRedux

Forgive my reification, but “the economy” HATES uncertainty.

As long as this law remains fluid and changing according to the political whims of those in power,

the economy will never recover.

Perhaps that’s by design of the PTB.


6 posted on 06/06/2014 1:44:20 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Bullish
Every democrat who supported this crappy regime and their crappy, idiotic health takeover scheme should be ushered out of Washington.

Wrongo!! I favor hanging myself, but a bullet to whatever passes for their brains would also be satisfactory :))

7 posted on 06/06/2014 1:55:39 PM PDT by chesley
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-02/health-law-employer-mandate-said-to-be-delayed-to-2015.html


8 posted on 06/06/2014 1:58:59 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MrB

“Forgive my reification, but “the economy” HATES uncertainty.
As long as this law remains fluid and changing according to the political whims of those in power, the economy will never recover.”

You are exactly correct. It would be better to go ahead and implement that prolonging this ongoing uncertainty.


9 posted on 06/06/2014 2:06:32 PM PDT by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Steely Tom

No employer mandate = no obamacare = single payer


10 posted on 06/06/2014 2:09:39 PM PDT by Organic Panic
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Bullish
Every democrat who supported this crappy regime and their crappy, idiotic health takeover scheme should be ushered out of Washington.

"ushered" ?

The hell you say.

I'm thinking "tarred and feathered" would be more appropriate.

11 posted on 06/06/2014 2:15:51 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway
so I ask my perpetual question - knowing that separate but equal is not Constitutional - why do unions and business get an exemption but I do not (as a single payer).

I think the ad hoc way Obama has changed the ACA makes it an easy Constitutional challenge.

12 posted on 06/06/2014 2:25:19 PM PDT by llevrok (Straight. Since 1950.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Best way to kill O Care: fully implement it, with not one exempt person or business.

The volume of screams from every quarter would wake up even Congress.


13 posted on 06/06/2014 3:41:49 PM PDT by lurk
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Conservatives have long known that Obamacare’s employer mandate, if implemented, will create harmful distortions in the labor market and damage the economy.

&&
Um...damaging the economy is the main goal of passing Obamacare.


14 posted on 06/06/2014 3:54:50 PM PDT by Bigg Red (1 Pt 1: As he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Bullish

Do you really think we will have a presidential election in 2016, given that Obama and Bergdahl dedicated the WH to the World Caliphate just a few days ago?


15 posted on 06/06/2014 3:56:30 PM PDT by Bigg Red (1 Pt 1: As he who called you is holy, be holy yourselves in every aspect of your conduct.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: MrB
Hey Mr B...I completely agree with everything you said...but I am an optimist.

The truth always wins eventually (no time limit declared;-))...and freedom (and the economy is based on free trade and free markets) will ultimately win because humans are willing to die for it.

The problem Obama has is that humans will always remember America. America is not just a future idea...it was a wonderful reality...a heritage.

This idea of America is here to stay!

God Bless!

16 posted on 06/06/2014 4:28:53 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson