I just received this email as a member of NFIB (National Federation of Small Business). In the document it states:
"Without any policy justification, the recently passed Senate bill specifically mandates construction companies to provide health insurance coverage or pay penalties if they have more than five employees and a payroll that exceeds $250,000.
This destructive new mandate was only made public just days before the vote and is an unprecedented assault on a single industry that is made up of mostly small businesses.
Enough is Enough!"
To view in full, PLEASE visit and read my rant below :) :
http://view.nfibcommunications.org/?j=fe651570776206787613&m=fef916797d6704&ls=fdf010797465047c7213797d&l=fe9216717c60017b77&s=fe6415787366077e7510&jb=ffcf14&ju=fe531c7772600c7f7611&WT.mc_id=&WT.dcsvid=18623304&WT.ti=Construction+Call+Email+Invite+(1.8.10)&WT.z_emailAddress=bob@grandhandyman.com&WT.z_jobID=10262537
Again, one can only question whether it is incompetency or an agenda. What the hell were people thinking when they voted in a Democratic President AND Congress???!!! Did they not think that this party would fast-track all their liberal agendas to make up for all their lost years? This is an assault on the middle class, small business and a business category that has provided many Americans, including those that did not attend or were not right for college, an opportunity toward the American Dream. Have they considered the unemployment ramifications of this policy? And the cost to retrain all these people will be paid by the American Taxpayer...again. And retrain to do what?
If you think you are isolated from this "tax", think about getting home improvements completed without paying increased prices or having the work, remember inside your home, completed by undocumented, illegal aliens because that is what the industry will come too (actually, this Great Recession has already forced that metamorphisis). I can tell you now, the consensus among ALL fellow contractors I speak to is that the cost of doing business, including payroll taxes and all the liability and Worker's Compensation insurances is crippling the industry. Add this "tax" and the administrative costs to handling it and you will pay through the nose for a dependable, quality service for the few that can survive.
What always gets my goad is most of the elitists making these legislative policies have not run small businesses. Again, I wonder, are they clueless or calculating?
Friday, January 8, 2010
American capitalism gone with a whimper
This was an article published in Pravda, of all places, back in April 2009. Back in the thick of our newly elected President, corporate bailouts, stimulus packages and near economic collapse. How shameful we should be of our recent past and current situation and how we let it get to this point. Read it and see if you see some of yourself in this Russian editorial. Now is the time to safeguard the future. If not, how will you explain it to your kids and grandchildren?
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