Companies Must Justify Their Workforce Decisions Under Obama’s Latest Rewrite

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(CNSNews.com) – Once again acting without Congress, President Obama has unilaterally changed his signature health insurance law, delaying its employer mandate – the second time he’s done this -- to 2016, after the mid-term elections.

BUT: To be eligible for the additional delay, the Obama administration says an employer “may not reduce the size of its workforce or the overall hours of service of its employees” unless it can justify those reductions to the Internal Revenue Service.

On Monday, the administration issued new regulations saying that employers with 50 to 99 workers don’t need to provide minimum essential coverage until 2016 – two years beyond what’s written in the law.

But the regulations also say that effective yesterday, employers may not shed employees or work hours just to get below the 100-employee threshold – and thus avoid Obamacare’s penalties for another full year.

[Flick Lives]

To be eligible for the additional delay, the Obama administration says an employer “may not reduce the size of its workforce or the overall hours of service of its employees” unless it can justify those reductions to the Internal Revenue Service.

In the name of the general welfare, to protect the people's security, to achieve full equality and total stability, it is decreed for the duration of the national emergency that: Point One. All workers, wage earners and employees of any kind whatsoever shall henceforth be attached to their jobs and shall not leave nor be dismissed nor change employment, under penalty of a term in jail. The penalty shall be determined by the Unification Board, such Board to be appointed by the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources. All persons reaching the age of twenty-one shall report to the Unification Board, which shall assign them to where, in its opinion, their services will best serve the interests of the nation.
("Atlas Shrugged" Directive 10-289 )

[almcbean]

This sound familiar:

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only

[loveliberty2]

Perhaps the words of James Madison, long referred to as "the 'Father' of the Constitution, might be instructive here:

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” - James Madison

"Although all men are born free, and all nations might be so, yet too true it is, that slavery has been the general lot of the human race. Ignorant--they have been cheated; asleep--they have been surprised; divided--the yoke has been forced upon them. But what is the lesson? that because they people may betray themselves, they ought to give themselves up, blindfolded, to those who have an interest in betraying them? Rather conclude that the people ought to be enlightened, to be awakened, to be united, that after establishing a government they should watch over it, as well as obey it." - Essay in the National Gazette, December 20, 1792

"I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation [...]. This danger ought to be wisely guarded against." - Elliot, Debates in the State Conventions, 3:87.

[VerySadAmerican]

Megyn Kelly is now called “Skip-to-mi-loo” in my house. When it was apparent obama had won re-election she skipped across the set in total bliss. So, now her surprise at obama’s lawlessness doesn’t seem real to me.

In fact, just the other day she asked “Is the new talking point that you can keep your doctor if you want to pay more?” I guess she didn’t see Greta’s interview with Rahm Emmanual’s brother a month or so back when he said it.

[wally_bert]

Apparently it is coming in increments.

[Major Matt Mason]

Great, Napolitano is outraged by it. Now what? The only group that has any real power to stop this is the House GOP. If we can coax them out of the closets that they're cowering in, maybe we can get them to do something. Make no mistake, though, that Obama is trying to force the GOP to do something. He is spoiling for a fight, because he wants the lazy Democrat base energized for the mid-terms.

[massgopguy]

In the end everyone was a Kulak. The Zampolit would make sure of it.

[setha]

I can’t believe this is not satire.

Then again, is there an action taken by this current regime that has not crossed that boundary at least once?

[ExTxMarine]

Of course, that will probably have to be "justified" to the IRS too...

And if they couldn't satisfy the IRS, then they will be taxed on what they WOULD HAVE made, had they stayed in business!

Sounds far fetched, until you realize the sitting President of the United States has completely re-written a law, changed it out of whole-cloth and continues to manipulate that law without a single worry of retaliation or retribution!

[Brad from Tennessee]

In the age before ethnic sensitivity ObamaCare would be called a “Chinese fire drill.”

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Everyone should download "Vampire Economy" to their e-reader.....an accounting of what it takes to do business in Nazi Germany.....you will be amazed at how our present day government and regulation of industry are the same as under the command and control economic system the Nazis had in place.

I am not comparing Nazi race theory to the U.S. government so don't go there.

[TheThirdRuffian]

What edict number was this from Atlas Shrugged?

[Billthedrill]

Directive 10-289. First two points:

Point One. All workers, wage earners and employees of any kind whatsoever shall henceforth be attached to their jobs and shall not leave nor be dismissed nor change employment, under penalty of a term in jail. The penalty shall be determined by the Unification Board, such Board to be appointed by the Bureau of Economic Planning and National Resources. All persons reaching the age of twenty-one shall report to the Unification Board, which shall assign them to where, in its opinion, their services will best serve the interests of the nation.

Point Two. All industrial, commercial, manufacturing and business establishments of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth remain in operation, and the owners of such establishments shall not quit nor leave nor retire, nor close, sell or transfer their business, under penalty of the nationalization of their establishment and of any and all of their property.

A lot of libraries are going to be angry at having to move Atlas Shrugged from the fiction section and into the history section.

[TheThirdRuffian]

Thank you very much. I knew it was one.

It’s a taxable event to lay off workers? Where is this in the law?!

[VerySadAmerican]

Companies with 100 or more employees should sue. Talk about unequal protection.

I assume this “dictate” is to those companies that have close to 100 so they’d best not cut it to 99.

[EBH]

Obama’s Directive 10-289
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2684446/posts

Point One: All workers, wage earners, and employees of any kind whatsoever shall henceforth be attached to their jobs and shall not leave nor be dismissed nor change employment...

[Nifster]

And no one has done anything about this stuff since his first illegal action. I wish some of those birthed law suers had spent their time on this stuff

[Fred Hayek]

10-289

[lentulusgracchus]

Obama is just reacting to the private market now .... that's a mug's game, chasing the human race with a butterfly net.

The Communists' answer was, when people started passively resisting them, to gin up an issue and start killing people. Stand by for tough stuff to come.

[Gene Eric]

>> unless it can justify those reductions to the Internal Revenue Service.

Ah yes, the stench of fascism.