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Sen. Collins: Obamacare's 30-Hour Rule Will Damage Businesses
NewsMax ^ | Aug 3, 2013 | By Sandy Fitzgerald

Posted on 08/03/2013 9:36:23 AM PDT by Jim Robinson

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To: Jim Robinson

Sounds like she is trying to put people completely out of business by changing this to a 40 hour rule. At least with 30 hours they can keep operating with part-timers.

GOP had better nip this one in the bud, it will only help dems keep obamacare in effect and destroy businesses.


21 posted on 08/03/2013 10:16:14 AM PDT by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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To: Jim Robinson

This 30 hour work week is a socialist idea. To their way of socialist thinking all the central government has to do is edict a 30 hour work week and poof ! Just like magic all manufacurers will have to hire more employees to make the widgets to fill the orders that don’t come because of the increase in per unit costs dumped on them created by the central planners.

It’s just like believing artifically increasing the costs of fuel by restricting new refineries , drilling on Fed lands, and only 50 employees for a new pipeline. So having it be transported by railroad to processing centers who’s owner is a key contributer (Buffett) may increase the costs.

But its benefits will be; We’ll double the minimum wage,be saving the world from climate change, while letting other countrys eliminate US manufacturing jobs that will make US dependent on the central government for support.

I have a better idea defund Obamacare and dump Collins while we’re at it.


22 posted on 08/03/2013 10:20:41 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (Serious contribution pause.Please continue onto meaningless venting no one reads.)
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To: Common Sense 101

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23 posted on 08/03/2013 10:24:29 AM PDT by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: Principled
ok so why did she vote for cloture on the bill if she knew it was so damaging? She could have kept if from coming to the Senate floor iirc.

I believe that's right. She had her opportunity to vote against cloture back in 2010, but failed to do so, along with several other senators who really should have displayed better sense at the time.
24 posted on 08/03/2013 10:30:38 AM PDT by Milton Miteybad (I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
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To: Jim Robinson

So now we’d have 39 hour people with no insurance instead of 29 hour people? I’m not sure this idea has been thought fully through...

To me the problem isn’t the number of hours at which a punishing regulation kicks in, the problem is that there is punishing regulation.


25 posted on 08/03/2013 10:36:28 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Justice for Trayvon: Dig up his body and shoot him again.)
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26 posted on 08/03/2013 10:43:14 AM PDT by musicman (Until I see the REAL Long Form Vault BC, he's just "PRES__ENT" Obama = Without "ID")
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To: Steve_Seattle
Do they then hire additional part-time workers to make up the labor gap?

You figured it out, Steve. Obamacare Full Frontal: Of 953,000 Jobs Created In 2013, 77%, Or 731,000 Are Part-Time, ZeroHedge, August 2, 2013.

27 posted on 08/03/2013 11:07:40 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Artcore
Yet you voted for cloture?!?! She’s trying to provide some cover for herself...nothing more.

Yes,Yes,Yes. The scum in the sewers is better than CONgress.

28 posted on 08/03/2013 11:32:10 AM PDT by Digger
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To: daler
It would not surprise me at all to see the day arrive when employers are fined or otherwise sanctioned for laying people off.

It wouldn't surprise me, either. The Democratic [sic] party, aided and abetted by the Vichy Republican party, never passes up an opportunity to institute new taxes.

29 posted on 08/03/2013 12:06:39 PM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: Gay State Conservative

The real vote is the vote to end debate (cloture) how did Collins vote on cloture?


30 posted on 08/03/2013 12:27:53 PM PDT by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been offically denied)
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To: Jim Robinson
"Obamacare has 'perverse incentives' that allow employers to cut their employees' work hours"

Not allow but force. Businesses were already free to cut hours if they wanted to. Now they have to cut hours to avoid a penalty.

31 posted on 08/03/2013 1:09:25 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant
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To: Jim Robinson

Then the poor smucks will have to pay full price to the exchange then any subsidy will come as a tax credit NEXT YEAR!


32 posted on 08/03/2013 2:10:01 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Fight the culture of nothing.)
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To: Jim Robinson

We have to pass the bill to see what’s in it.


33 posted on 08/03/2013 3:56:26 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (What difference does it make?)
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