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From the American Interest:
According to Sheet Metal Workers Local 85 Union in Atlanta, Obamacare’s requirements “will add between 50 cents to $1 an hour to the cost of members’ compensation package,” making them less competitive than non-unionized contractors with fewer than 50 employees, who can forgo health care for their workers without fear of a penalty. Unions who once thought Obamacare would save them money are now aggressively lobbying the Obama administration to fork over federal subsidies. This request has caught Obama in a bind.
I'm guessing that Obama does not feel himself particularly bound, because he doesn't actually regard beefy white guys in windbreakers as long-run members of his coalition. His plan has always been to string the unions along until such time as non-white immigration makes them irrelevant.
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I love how the solution to a government program that increases spending is always more government spending to mitigate the consequences. A more rational approach would be to aggressively lobby the Obama administration to repeal the law that caused the problem in the first place. That will never happen, though, because that doesn't accomplish the end game, government control.
Too bad the baseball player's union (the MLBPA) can't wither and die! That's a union with too MUCH power...
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