Happy St. Patty’s Day folks,
It looks like the Obama Administration is steadfast in its pursuit to make sure that middle-class Americans don’t see any relief from Obamacare. Yesterday, White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer told David Gregory that delaying the individual mandate “will not happen.”
Several groups have been given special treatment from the Obama Administration, including:
- Some labor unions getting “a break from the law’s so-called belly button tax,” which is $63 per person this year and $44 per person in 2015.
- “The government will now exempt companies employing between 50 and 100 full-time workersfrom complying with the mandate that they offer employees affordable health insurance by another year.”
It’s unfair that the Obama Administration will not give relief to individuals when so many people disapprove of the law. Additionally the law’s impact on wages has a real-world impact on middle-class families.
And as YG Network’s John Murray recently pointed out on Huffington Post, “When a law causes a pay cut, as the Unite Here report demonstrates, a hardworking person loses an opportunity to pay for electricity bills, gas or groceries. It means they are less able to help their kids with everyday items, much less college tuition.”
Guinness the day.