Companies Can't Fire People Because of ObamaCare Costs
Once again, power has been deferred to the IRS where the Fifth Amendment does not apply and the agency is lawless with the tacit approval of the President. Try pleading the Fifth when you sign your tax return.
Then there’s the EEOC, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. People who are fired for whatever reason will have cause to appeal to the EEOC. I can tell you from personal business experience, it’s an expensive and time consuming enterprise, even if you win like my company did.
You know it had to happen. Once the government got control of our healthcare (we were warned), there wouldn’t be any area that it would not be involved in. Once people get used to the idea of government regulating their lives in small areas where they do not believe the law will adversely affect them, they will acquiesce in more significant areas where they will be negatively affected.
“The paternal state not only feeds its
children, but nurtures, educates, comforts, and disciplines them,
providing all they need for their security. This appears to be a mildly
insulting way to treat adults, but it is really a great crime because it
transforms the state from being a gift of God, given to protect us
against violence, into an idol. It supplies us with all blessings, and
we look to it for all our needs. Once we sink to that level, as [C.S.]
Lewis says, there is no point in telling state officials to mind their own business. “Our whole lives are their business.”[1]
“The paternalism of the state is that of
the bad parent who wants his children dependent on him forever. That is
an evil impulse. The good parent prepares his children for independence,
trains them to make responsible decisions, knows that he harms them by
not helping them to break loose. The paternal state thrives on
dependency. When the dependents free themselves, it loses power. It is,
therefore, parasitic on the very persons whom it turns into parasites.
Thus, the state and its dependents march symbiotically [in close union
with one another] to destruction.”[2]
It was President Obama who said, “That's the good thing about being president. I can do whatever I want.”
