Posted on 07/01/2009 9:14:45 AM PDT by Lorianne
Matthew Yglesias proudly announces that his employer the liberal thinktank Center for American Progress has convinced Wal-Mart (WMT) to support a law that would legally obligate employers to pay for their employees' health insurance.
The Center for American Progress, the Service Employees International Union, and Wal-Mart joined forces today to release a letter (PDF) endorsing the dual ideas of an employer mandate to provide health insurance and “triggers” to automatically reduce costs if health care spending gets too high (more on that here).
The highly ideological behavior of the business community, and high degree of class solidarity exhibited by the executive class, has been a hugely important element of the story of American politics over the past thirty years or so. The willingness of much of the business community to break with Chamber ideology on Waxman-Markey and now on health care is an important sign of change in the air.
Sorry Matt! We hate to bust your bubble, but you and your employer are being used for Wal-Mart's agenda, which is as greedy and selfish as ever. Actually, it's worse.
This is all about introducing a bill that will harm its competitors, particularly businesses of a slightly lower size that can't buy health insurance on the same scale. The company already has a major price and sourcing edge over its competitors, and this law would allow it to exploit that even more.
This is similar to when liberals got excited about the fact that Wal-Mart came out in favor of a higher minimum wage, even though Wal-Mart employees almost all make well over the minimum wage, meaning that such a law would only reduce margins at their competitors. You could go on and on.
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(Hat tip Lorilori)
Stop shopping at Wal Mart.
I used to like Wal Mart, but now with their Mutlicultural supermarket, designed for Hispanics only, their forcing their suppliers to move to China, and now this...Wal Mart can go to hell.
Big Business LOVES Big Government.
Ummm..., the Wal-Mart supporters here are going to be caught between a rock and a hard place... :-)
I never started and I won't start now.
No problem here! In principle, I wanted to support them in the past (cause all the libs hated them so much), but... I cannot stand how the stores are set-up, the shoddy merchandise, the crappy employees, and all of the illegals shopping there. I shop at Target instead. They may have their problems, but the shopping experience is much more pleasant.
Or maybe it’s a ploy to get the lefts goat. You know how the left complains about Wal Mart and any other big business? Maybe if Wal Mart endorses it.... Nah.... but it was a thought.
I will not go into wal mart again if this is true.
LLS
... and regulation.
I keep telling my liberal acquantances this but they NEVER understand.
Don’t know why , but everytime I shop at a WalMart I feel like I need to take a bath when I get home.
That’s what I think.
Very savvy of them.
I don’t think Sam Walton would recognize his store were he alive today.
I will.
I think they are teaching the idiots a very important lesson. Be careful what you ask for.
Looks like Wal-Mart is just trying to get along with the “new management” in Washington and Beijing.
Its sad to see, but its all about cutting losses and it looks like Wal-Mart is throwing in the towel rather than fight the leftist critics.
GE is the perfect example. Show them the list of those big companies which supported Cap and Trade.
I’ve been to Wal-Mart twice in my life and both experiences I considered them dirty, unkempt stores.
That is why I don’t shop there and do not plan to do so in the future.
How much more would you like me to pay for my groceries? 10%? 20%? 50%?
And I'm going to do this, why?
It's called Mercantilism. We fought the Revolutionary War against it. Mercantilism preceded Capitalism. The Robber Barons were and are Mercantilists, not Capitalists.
The Dems love Mercantilism, because it's just a short step to Fascism.
Nah. This isn’t a reason to stop shopping WalMart.
All large companies support these things. It removes the cost from their books and puts it on the taxpayer.
Anyone who cares to can go back and check all the large companies that supported HillaryCare back in the day.
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