A bill recently introduced in the Texas state house aims to reward employers who violate Obamacare, offeringsubsidies to any company that uses religious objection as an excuse for denying its employees copay-free contraception.House Bill 649, introduced by state Rep. Jonathan Stickland (R), was apparently inspired by thecontroversy over craft chain store Hobby Lobby. That store sued to deny its employees contraception coverage, citing its male president’s religious objections. But since Hobby Lobby, and companies like it, will be forced to pay a fine for violating the law, Strickland wants to compensate them with tax breaks:The tax credit would be limited to the amount of a federal fine that the company pays or the amount of state tax the company owes.
can you believe this, they would rather pay fins for someone else then to see Americans get healthcarem, and the business is willing to let their employees fin for themselves rather than keeping them healthy and safe.
some other humane business ought to come in hire those people afflicted with gutless right wing bosses and let the party pay their bills when they no longer have a workforce. despicable them
The tax credit would be limited to the amount of a federal fine that the company pays or the amount of state tax the company owes.
“When a business is being stressed nearly to the point of bankruptcy by punitive federal taxes, of course the state should give them relief,” Stickland said in the news release.[...]
“The Obama administration’s mandate and their threats to bury Hobby Lobby with $1.3 million per day in tax penalties aren’t just unconstitutional, they’re unconscionable,” he said. “It is simply appalling that any business owner should have to choose between violating their religious convictions and watching their business be strangled by the strong arm of Federal mandates and taxation.”
By offering to help compensate these companies, Strickland is accepting a drastic cut in funding to the Texas government. His plan proposes letting organizations like Hobby Lobby off the hook for state taxes up to the amount they owe in federal penalties. Since Hobby Lobby is estimated to owe a fine of $1.3 million a day (more, in a year, than it would be paying in state taxes), Hobby Lobby would get a pass on giving a single cent to the state of Texas.this is no more then the rich bucking the Pres. nothing what so ever to do with business strain and definitely nothing to do with workers just a continuation of war on workers and women and trying to slight the Pres.
cheating Texas citizens while sticking it to the Pres. except the Pres. is fine it's their own people they are screwing, waiting to see if they let him get away with it, firing not so much rality unless they are just totally stupid and lose business just to be arrogant exclusionist.
