Didn’t realize Townhall.com had become a lefty rag, but I guess it did.
Say what?
I would say his EO doesn’t apply to businesses, but, then, Biden’s and OSHA’s aren’t legal, yet companies are using those to justify their vaccine mandate actions.
Companies don’t vote and laws should protect people and their property.
Rights are enshrined for humans, not companies.
So is it also “freedom” if I don’t hire Jews, blacks, Muslims, women, and midgets? Oh, and fat people since they disgust me…
We are not, and have never been, a free market economy.
This demonstrates the cluelessness of business-centered conservatives. It’s just as oppressive from the point of view of a corporation: you’re still being told what you can and cannot do by the state. In Texas, business are being told they can’t fire workers because you’re too cowardly to stand up to internal Karens. But EMPLOYEES are free to decide for themselves whether to wear a mask or not.
So according to this stooge at Townhall, telling businesses that they cannot FORCE people to get an experimental vaccine or DEMAND that they prove they’ve been “vaccinated” is somehow oppressive to the business.
Without Biden’s action Abbots would be unnecessary.
What Abbot appears to be doing is creating a legal issue between the State of Texas and the US Federal Government that can be used as a legal basis for a challenge to the Biden Vac mandate on 10th Amendment grounds
But you can always rely on Conservative Inc at Townhall to waste all their time and energy attacking their own rather then ever spending any time fighting the Leftists propaganda machine
Texas is doing what states are supposed to do; acting as a check on federal power.
Unhappily, most large businesses are so in bed with the federal government - and so dominated by CA/NE USA for “leadership” - that individuals in states need their state government to protect them from out-of-state stupidity!
And here is a critical difference. NO ONE should be able to force you to inject stuff into your body against your morals and/or judgment as the price to go shopping, travel between states, etc.
Vaccines protect the ones who take it. So anyone who believes the vaccine works - as I do - is free to take it and be protected. Anyone who does not take it forgoes any protection it may or may not offer. But the unvaccinated pose NO RISK to the vaccinated!
Assuming of course the vaccine works. And if it doesn’t? Then NO ONE benefits.
Like the whole “You cannot turn a stallion into a mare by surgery” thing, this is an obvious reality!
Mr. Sullum, your thought processes are moronic and you are probably a Lincoln Project RINO/democrat which is the worst adjective one human can utter about another.
# 1, it is ok with most of us for a politician to see the light and change his/her/it’s mind which Abbott did and fairly quickly.
# 2, Abbott now has the right policy in place. Namely, Texas Business cannot force the jab on it’s employees.
This is insane.
NO ONE is telling a single person whether they must or must not get vaccinated other than the left.
No one is squashing freedom except for the left.
These wahh-wahh type articles always make me laugh.
People like this need to shut the *bleep* up. He’s actually comparing what Abbot is doing in guaranteeing the liberty of the people to Biden’s tyrannical diktats? This is Mitt Romney level stupidity. But he, that’s Town Hall for ya.
I like many Libertarians. There are some really good ones like Dave Smith.
This guy is not one of the good ones.
I did a quick Google search and I can’t find any articles by Mr. Sullum after Biden proposed the vaccine mandate criticizing his decision but now that a state wants to DEFEND freedom, he has a problem and needs to let his voice be heard.
I couldn’t find any articles from this guy from 2020 over the forced business closures by state governments either. For some reason, the state telling a business to close is fine with Mr Sullum but not allowing them to fire employees who don’t participate in medical experiments is goberné men that overreach.
I also see that he is ok with mask mandates in schools but I can guarantee you he would be against the 10 Commandments being in the schools.
What a creep and a grifter.
Tin-pot-dictator wannabees come in all flavors...