That time Jonathan Gruber made the case against paid leave

President Obama and Democrats are planning to make paid leave the next campaign wedge issue in order to paint Republicans as out of touch with the working class.

But Jonathan Gruber may once again come to the rescue of Republicans, due to the fact that the Obamacare architect found in past research that increasing mandated benefits would result in lower wages.

Gruber, you may recall, is the man who claimed that the “stupidity” of American voters aided Democrats in passing Obamacare through Congress.

Heritage Foundation labor scholar James Sherk noted in a recent article for the Daily Signal that in 1990 and 1994, Gruber found that mandating increased benefits would actually lead to reduced wages.

Thank you for referencing that article tje. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed at the article and not at you.

As mentioned in related threads, please consider the following. Regardless what FDR’s activist justices wanted everybody to think about Congress’s Commerce Clause powers when it wrongly decided Wickard v. Filburn in corrupt Congress’s favor in 1942, FDR’s justices also wrongly ignored the following. They ignored that the Supreme Court had historically clarified that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate commerce, worker pay issues reasonably an aspect of intrastate commerce.

”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

So regardless that Obama and Gruber want to make paid leave the next campaign issue, it remains that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution the specific power to regulate vote-winning intrastate wage issues.

..... Obama and Gruber want paid leave to be the next campaign issue.....it remains that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate vote-winning intrastate wage issues....

CONSERVATIVE WISH LIST ----reforms must include:

<><> lowering taxes,

<><>financial accountability,

<><>restricting the commerce clause,

<><> termination of IRS employees for political acts...

<><> restraining the judiciary,

<><> repealing the 17th; returning the election of senators to state legislatures,

<><> clarifying and amending the Constitution to its original intent

<><> closing constitutional loopholes created by calculated liberal attacks using case law.

As FReeper Publius posted: When the federal entity goes beyond the Constitution's words to govern by penumbras and emanations, then the states should modify the words by amendment to restrict what the federal government can and cannot do. phrases like “shall not” and “can not be infringed” are cloudy in their meanings. It’s time to take away their self designed exemptions and selective enforcement for their fellow olgiarchs.

Congress needs to live according to their own laws under Sections VII - IX. It’s called “case law”, or “precedent”. When you build an edifice of case law, you modify and change the meaning of words until they mean something that is quite different from their original intent.

Thanks for posting that conservative wish list.

One thing that patriots can actually start doing yesterday is this. Parents need to make sure that their children are being taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers as the Founding States had intended for those powers to be understood, Congress’ constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers in particular.

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