'Company Policy: We are not hiring until Obama is gone'

Reba said:
As long as the original claim is clearly stated and not just made up out of thin air.
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really? you believe the original claim you speak of was made up out of thin air?

Reba said:
There have been some claims in past threads that were so off the wall they were impossible to figure out.
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yea just like all legislation bills :lol:
 
Affordable Care Act Tax Provisions
Small Business Health Care Tax Credit

This new credit helps small businesses and small tax-exempt organizations afford the cost of covering their employees and is specifically targeted for those with low- and moderate-income workers. The credit is designed to encourage small employers to offer health insurance coverage for the first time or maintain coverage they already have. In general, the credit is available to small employers that pay at least half the cost of single coverage for their employees. Learn more by browsing our page on the Small Business Health Care Tax Credit for Small Employers and our news release.
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Small Businesses and the Affordable Care Act ? Fact Sheets | HealthCare.gov
Small Businesses and the Affordable Care Act
You know the value of providing health insurance to your employees. But it can be a real challenge for small businesses. On average, small businesses pay about 18% more than large firms for the same health insurance policy. And small businesses lack the purchasing power that larger employers have. The health care law provides tax credits and soon - the ability to shop for insurance in Exchanges that help close this gap.

Top Things to Know for Small Businesses

If you have up to 25 employees, pay average annual wages below $50,000, and provide health insurance, you may qualify for a small business tax credit of up to 35% (up to 25% for non-profits) to offset the cost of your insurance. This will bring down the cost of providing insurance.

Under the health care law, employer-based plans that provide health insurance to retirees ages 55-64 can now get financial help through the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program. This program is designed to lower the cost of premiums for all employees and reduce employer health costs.

Starting in 2014, the small business tax credit goes up to 50% (up to 35% for non-profits) for qualifying businesses. This will make the cost of providing insurance even lower.

In 2014, small businesses with generally fewer than 100 employees can shop in an Affordable Insurance Exchange, which gives you power similar to what large businesses have to get better choices and lower prices. An Exchange is a new marketplace where individuals and small businesses can buy affordable health benefit plans.

Exchanges will offer a choice of plans that meet certain benefits and cost standards. Starting in 2014, members of Congress will be getting their health care insurance through Exchanges, and you will be able to buy your insurance through Exchanges, too.

Employers with fewer than 50 employees are exempt from new employer responsibility policies. They don’t have to pay an assessment if their employees get tax credits through an Exchange.
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/files/documents/health_reform_for_small_businesses.pdf
No Employer Mandate, Exempts Small
Firms from Employer Responsibility
Requirement

The Affordable Care Act does not include an employer
mandate. In 2014, as a matter of fairness, the Affordable
Care Act requires large employers to pay a shared
responsibility fee only if they don’t provide affordable
coverage and taxpayers are supporting the cost of health
insurance for their workers through premium tax credits
for middle to low income families.

• The law specifically exempts all firms that have fewer
than 50 employees – 96 percent of all firms in the United
States or 5.8 million out of 6 million total firms – from
any employer responsibility requirements. These 5.8
million firms employ nearly 34 million workers. More
than 96 percent of firms with 50 or more employees
already offer health insurance to their workers. Less
than 0.2 percent of all firms (about 10,000 out of 6
million) may face employer responsibility requirements.
Many firms that do not currently offer coverage will be
more likely to do so because of lower premiums and
wider choices in the Exchange.
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So Looman..... how many employees do you have? are you currently receiving tax credits? and lastly... are you a liar? or perhaps cheating?
 
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fdCsQRgI5o]Affordable Care Act is Working for Small Business - YouTube[/ame]
 
Businessman Bill Looman wants Obama to fix things for him | Jay Bookman
I don’t doubt that Looman’s company in particular and the crane industry in general are going through hard times. A few years ago, you saw cranes throughout the metro Atlanta skyline. Today, with commercial real estate construction down significantly, they’re a fairly rare sight. Like a lot of people in that industry, he probably has a significant investment in equipment that just isn’t being used.

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Jobs in the construction industry, source: Bureau of Labor Statistics

But the truth is, the industry was benefiting a few years ago from an artificial construction boom that eventually went bust, as it inevitably must. Take a look at construction industry figures, courtesy of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Employment in that industry peaked at 7.7 million in January 2007 and has since fallen to 5.5 million, a decline of more than 28 percent.

In that sense, you have to sympathize with Bill Looman. He’s struggling to keep his company alive and his employees paid. However, I don’t understand his apparent belief that government in general, and President Obama in particular, are supposed to come along and fix this for him. He is reciting the narrative that he has been taught, without regard to its accuracy.

In an interview with ABC News, Looman said that “overregulation and the cost of complying with federal mandates has caused many of his customers to shut their doors.”

“The buck stops [at Obama],” he said. “He is the leader of this nation and he needs to assume that postion and understand it is his fault, ultimately.”

However, as the chart above demonstrates, construction employment had already been falling for two years and was in the midst of a full-fledged freefall by the time Obama took office. No matter how hard he wishes to believe it, that collapse had nothing to do with overregulation or federal mandates imposed by the current administration.

In fact, the collapse in construction employment would have been more severe without the stimulus bill that Obama championed and that Republicans continue to condemn.

Looman strikes me as a man who takes pride in his independence. But that self-image is contradicted by his insistence that if his business isn’t doing well, it’s somebody else’s fault and somebody else’s responsibility to fix it for him. He wants a small government that keeps its nose out of his business, yet he also wants that government to fix things for him and make things like they used to be, and he complains bitterly when it doesn’t.

– Jay Bookman
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there you go, ladies n' gentlemen! another case of "Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!"
 
TXgolfer said:
*shrug* I haven't seen any safeguards in my research. And really if they can cut such a large portion so early in the game, nothing is safe. The CLASS act was a major component of the bill.

And.... The Dems on the super committee just offered $400 billion in Medicare and Medicaid cuts.... That is government sponsored insurance.

Supercommittee Dems offer $350 billion in Medicare cuts - Matt DoBias and Seung Min Kim - POLITICO.com

If you would like to present specific safeguards that prevent government from cutting corners on health care I would love to have a conversation about them. But until then it is quite apparent that government can make big cuts in the health care plan. In fact they have already started.
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What cuts in healthcare exactly have they already made?
 
Jiro said:
Bill Looman's anti-Islamic rant

https://www.facebook.com/bill.looman/posts/2482250822976


does anybody think Looman looks like Steinhauer??? http://www.facebook.com/bill.looman

and plus... Part 3: Looman gets his militia playground - Baltimore liberal | Examiner.com

oh my... smells like a Domestic Dissent.... or perhaps Domestic Terrorist? :hmm:
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:laugh2:

And like I also said 18 pages ago, another fringe loony looking for his 15 minutes of fame.

Kind of whiny for a Marine, don't you think?
 
Jiro said:
umad?

linked for your convenience. http://i41.tinypic.com/v81qxh.png


dehooved, you mean.
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Yeah, I saw that one, too. Decided it was so innane that I'd just let it ride.:laugh2: Steiny tries so hard to act out his grudges and get back at people that he ends up backing himself right into a corner. It's kind of sad, really.
 
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Steinhauer said:
Not mad at all. I think it is silly that since the left cannot find anything illegal with what Loomis is doing, they are turning him into a "Bible and gun clinger".
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but he is a gun clinger or whatever it is. he has armed militia training ground with anti-Islamic belief.

Steinhauer said:
It is a very typical response from liberals that mistake feeling for thinking.
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you mean like Looman was making a typical response as right-wingers while receiving tax credits which was part of job stimulus package passed by Obama (which was opposed by Republicans)?

and how do you feel about him having extreme anti-Islamic view? and receiving $$$ from Obama's job stimulus package?
 
Steinhauer said:
Not mad at all. I think it is silly that since the left cannot find anything illegal with what Loomis is doing, they are turning him into a "Bible and gun clinger".

It is a very typical response from liberals that mistake feeling for thinking.
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:bowlol:

Oh, wait...you were serious, weren't you. In that case:

:rofl:
 
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