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NBC News: Businesses Cutting Hours
I know the employer mandate was delayed a year, yet businesses are still cutting hours down to 29 in preparation for the ACA. I think it's sad. Link below:
Re: NBC News: Businesses Cutting Hours
Of course, the above is still happening; employers aren't dumb...............
Cnon
Answer: not at all. Employees aren't human, they're just cogs in a machine, so who gives a crap if one dies of untreated cancer?
This is so ignorant as to be hilarious! Obviously you have not spent any time in the trenches of a small business. Probably about 50-75% of your dealings every day are with small businesses. Most insurance agents, (even the ones affiliated with the big names State Farm, etc) are small businesses because they are franchised. Your dry cleaners, some grocery stores (IGAs), farms that sell at your local co-op and farmer's markets, etc. are small businesses. The effective tax rate on corporations right now is about 12.1% whereas small businesses are taxed as if they are individuals. So say your accountant, with the other people working under him, has a business that grosses $250K per year, that business gets taxed at 40% of its total earnings whereas a corporation would only be taxed at 12.1% of those same earnings on 250K. It's about $70K difference in taxes alone on the gross income. (mind you the owner of the business is then taxed AGAIN on what he actually brings home from the business after the business taxes, expenses and employees are paid) Also, whenever things have been cut for incentive such as payroll taxes etc. they only did it for corporate payroll taxes not for the payroll taxes paid by small businesses. This doesn't even begin to account for the corporate buying power that a large corporation has over it's suppliers and vendors nor does it account for the financial advantages of doing a large volume. So yes, the problem is all with the local guys who want to sell you vegetables grown by hand 20 minutes from your house vs. Walmart who has shipped them covered with chemicals and where they sat on a truck for a month before they got thrown in the trough at the store. Yes, I'm sure it's the little guys who are the problem.
I'm sorry, whose ignorant, @snp605? Because your post makes it sound like it's you. Where exactly did I say, "Little guys are the problem"? What I said was that there seems to be an assumption that every business owner who claims "Obamacare" is the cause of them not being able to do business is actually good at running their business. Most owners haven't been providing some sort of proof that without Obamacare they would actually do right by their employees and be fabulously profitable.
Remind me again, why employers refused to provide healthcare before Obamacare? Remind me again why they cut hours of employees to 35 hours a week from 40?
I honestly don't even think your tirade was relevant to my point. The portion you bolded in my post was FACT. I'm sorry if that is news to you, and you previously lived in some fantasy land where all small businesses were run by intelligent minds who never ran their own businesses to the ground or encountered factors other than Obamacare to ruin their efficiently run small business. Not all people who want to run/do run a small business are capable of doing so. Are you really arguing against that?
As for my experience in the small business trenches, you once again show yourself to be highly ignorant. I worked at my mother's small business for 3 years before working for another small business, taking a break in corporate, and then starting my own. The majority of my time working has been spent in a small business environment.
The bulk of my mother's "employees" were actually independent contractors, but I and 3 others were full time employees. The company paid for health insurance for 4 people. We were offered hourly wages and health care. This is despite the fact that we were in a volatile, commission driven industry. I did the books (well, in conjunction with an outside accountant I met with quarterly), and it wasn't cheap. It was the cost of doing business and having the best staff and providing for those hard-working employees.
I never once said all small business owners suck. There are an innumerable number of amazing small business owners. But there are also awful ones. While working in small business, I interacted pretty much constantly with owners of other small businesses. You know what? Just like I said, there were a lot of dumb-asses who didn't know what they were doing. It's flat out ignorant to claim that every small business owner who can't afford the costs of doing business is being ruined by Obamacare.
In summation, I think it's YOU who doesn't know what the fuck she is talking about.