Judge Garland Is Anti-Business, Anti-Small Business. No Wonder Obama Proposed Him!

I knew I smelled a rat when it was Obama who nominated him (Judge Merrick Garland)

Read More About: In 16 major labor decisions Judge Garland’s ruled 16-0 in favor of the NLRB. (Obama's National Labor Relations Board) rather than the American consumer.

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We Oppose Judge Garland’s Confirmation

He is a friend of big labor and regulators, not small businesses.

By JUANITA DUGGAN

The Wall Street Journal, March 16, 2016
President Obama formally nominated Merrick Garland, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to the U.S. Supreme Court. After studying his extensive record, the National Federation of Independent Business believes that Judge Garland would be a strong ally of the regulatory bureaucracy, big labor and trial lawyers. On behalf of the hundreds of thousands of members we represent, the NFIB opposes Judge Garland’s confirmation.

In NAHB v. EPA, Judge Garland in 2011 refused to consider a Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) claim by the National Association of Home Builders against the Environmental Protection Agency despite the law’s clear language. The RFA is one of the few federal statutes that explicitly require certain agencies to take into account the effect of their actions on small employers. Consider that the federal government itself estimates that the typical small business must spend $12,000 per worker annually just to be compliant with federal regulations. With Judge Garland on the Supreme Court, the EPA and other regulators would have a freer hand to impose even more costs on small businesses.

In another case, Rancho Viejo, LLC v. Norton, in 2003, Judge Garland argued that the Commerce Clause, which regulates economic activity between the states, applies to an animal species found in only one state and which has no economic value. In doing so he foreshadowed the creative reasoning that the Obama administration used to defend the Affordable Care Act in NFIB v. Sebelius. We fear that as a pivotal justice on the Supreme Court, Judge Garland could apply his elastic view of the Commerce Clause to almost anything else.

In two other cases involving the National Labor Relations Board, Judge Garland didn’t just side with the government—he argued that business owners should be personally liable for labor violations. In other words, their personal assets, including their homes and their savings, would be exposed to government penalties. What worries us is that Judge Garland has been consistently wrong on labor law. In fact, in 16 major labor decisions of Judge Garland’s that we examined, he ruled 16-0 in favor of the NLRB. (Obama’s National Labor Relations Board)

With more than 320,000 members, our organization is the country’s largest advocate for small-business owners. When we asked members on Wednesday whether they wanted to fight the Garland confirmation, the response was overwhelming. More than 90% urged us to take action.

It is especially important that we get involved now because this year and in future sessions, the Supreme Court will hear cases in which NFIB is a plaintiff. We are challenging the Waters of the United States rule, an unprecedented expansion of the EPA’s power to regulate water. The Clean Power Plan, another massive expansion of federal power that we are challenging, threatens to drive up energy costs for consumers—and for small businesses.

Given Judge Garland’s record on the D.C. Circuit Court, is there any question about which side he would take in these cases? When it comes to big government versus small business, we know where he would stand.

Garland is so bad that, This is the first time in the NFIB’s 73-year history that we will weigh in on a Supreme Court nominee. As the plaintiff in NFIB v. Sebelius, which upheld the Affordable Care Act, our members know the power that a single Supreme Court justice can wield. We cannot support his elevation to the Supreme Court.

Ms. Duggan is president and CEO of the National Federation of Independent Business.

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Really, ObamaCrapCare Prices Are Going Up? Who Would Have Thunk It? If This Does Not Start A Revolution, Nothing Will!

Obamacare Effects Begin to Hit Home

Angel Rivera looks at his health care options at an Obamacare kiosk setup at the Mall of Americas in Miami.

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The hangovers from New Year's Eve have gone and now millions of Americans are waking up to headaches from Obamacare sticker shock.

Middle-class families are finding out the exact cost of the Affordable Care Act to their weekly budget, and they are realizing they have to make cutbacks in their lifestyles to afford higher healthcare insurance premiums, The Week reports.

Calling Obamacare "another sucker punch to the middle class," the report warns that "when the family budget gets hit in the solar plexus, guess what happens to consumer spending and the economy?"


All over the country, there are endless moving stories of how everyday lives are being affected by the higher costs of healthcare insurance plans under Obamacare, says The Week.

In California, the Wall Street Journal reported last month that 900,000 people are having their policies canceled because they don't meet the Obamacare requirements. And as some 600,000 of these people are not eligible for subsidies, they will end up paying larger premiums.

In New York, thousands of small businesses are being hammered by the cost of premiums under Obamacare, according to the New York Post.

The National Federation of Independent Businesses, which represents nearly 11,000 business owners across the state, has revealed that not one single member has reported that their healthcare insurance costs are going down.

The federation's director Mike Durant said an "overwhelming majority" of small firms with fewer than 50 employees have reported, in fact, that their premiums have shot up.

The Post notes, for example that Michael Kennedy, who owns two dog-grooming salons near Albany, said his cut-rate insurance coverage had more than doubled under Obamacare from $132.99 to $325.92 a month per person — a 145 percent increase.

Kennedy and his wife earn around $60,000 a year from their Pink Dog Parlor and Resort business, and he said paying for the higher premiums is "a huge challenge." He added, "It’s like another 100 dogs we need to groom."

In Alabama, WHNT News has revealed that middle-class residents have received letters "indicating their premiums will soon double."

Mother-of-four Courtney Long was stunned when Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama told her that her family's individual healthcare plan was going up from $352 per month to $796. "It's devastating. I started crying," said Long.

"I mean, we have worked so hard to get out of credit card debt, get ahead on the car loan, transfer our mortgage to a 15 from a 30 year mortgage…and for what?"

In Washington state, Forbes estimates that Obamacare "will increase, the underlying cost of individually purchased health insurance by 34 to 80 percent, on average."

And in Tennessee, Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander was stunned to learn from a report issued by the Obama administration that many Tennesseans face much higher premium under the new law, which took effect on January 1.

According to the Daily Caller, his analysis laid out four points to demonstrate how the Affordable Care Act will hurt people in the Volunteer State. They show that a 27-year-old man in Memphis faces a potential leap in premiums from $41 a month to $119 and 105 insurance policies in Nashville alone will no longer be available.

The Week points out that the bigger premiums will have a trickle-down effect on the economy as middle- and upper-middle-income families start to spend less while diverting some of their spare cash to pay for their expensive new health care premiums.

Pointing out that consumer spending accounts for 70 percent of the country's gross domestic product, the report warns, "The top 20 percent of earners account for about 40 percent of all spending in the U.S. When you increase the costs of health care and the new taxes associated with Obamacare, you can hear the wallets closing."



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Majority of Small Businessowners Feels ObamaCrapCare Will Be Bad For Their Business

Will Obamacare Take a Bite Out of Small Business?

by Al Bredenberg | May 28th, 2013

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or ACA), commonly known as Obamacare, was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. The law was formulated to increase the rate of health care coverage among Americans and to reduce the cost of health care.

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However, small businesses worry that the ACA is going to place extra burdens and costs on them. A Gallup survey of 603 small-business owners in April found that nearly half, 48 percent, think the ACA is going to be bad for their businesses. Thirty-nine percent think it will have no impact on their businesses, and only 9 percent think it will be good for them. Fifty-two percent think the law will reduce the quality of health care for themselves and their employees, and 55 percent expect to have to pay more for health care as a result of the law. Business owners’ negative view of the ACA is affecting business decisions: Forty-one percent say they have held off on hiring new employees, and 38 percent say they have pulled back on plans to expand.

Cynthia Magnuson-Allen, senior media manager for health care at the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), told IMT in an interview that for more than 20 years the organization’s members “have labeled the rising cost of health insurance as the number-one problem they face.” She said, “Small businesses pay as much as 18 percent more than their larger counterparts for equivalent coverage, and this trend will almost certainly be exacerbated by the ACA, which adds new mandates, requirements, taxes, and fees to the small-group health insurance markets — where most small-business owners purchase products for themselves and their employees.”

President Obama counters such charges by maintaining that the ACA and the state health insurance exchanges it creates are going to be good for small businesses and their employees. In a recent speech, he said that “if you work for just a small company that doesn’t have a lot of leverage with insurance companies, you’re going to have a better deal through these exchanges — but if you still can’t afford it, then you’re going to get help reducing your out-of-pocket premiums with the largest health-care tax cut for working families and small businesses in our history.” He charged that opponents of the ACA are “telling tall tales about its impact,” saying that “some small businesses are being told their costs are going to go up, even though they’re exempted from the law or they actually stand to benefit from it.”

The exemption Obama referred to is the 50-employee cutoff. Background information from the federal government says that the ACA “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.” Nearly all companies larger than that already provide insurance. Starting in 2014, employees of small businesses that don’t provide health insurance will be able to buy it through the state exchanges. In addition, smaller firms with fewer than 25 employees can be eligible for tax credits if they purchase health insurance for employees.

Magnuson-Allen cautioned that the 50-employee-cutoff provision “is a little more complicated” than what Obama has suggested. She argued that “under the proposed IRS regulations, a full-time employee is anyone who works the equivalent of 30 hours a week on average,” rather than the 40 hours one might assume. “There are also concerns for small-business owners who own multiple businesses,” she told IMT. “One may have 25 employees, one may have 15 and one 20 — the combined total of 60 means that owner is subject to the mandate, even though they own separate and distinct firms.” She also said that “the regulation is unclear about seasonal workers, which is another issue for many small-business owners, especially those in the hospitality and agricultural sectors.”

A guide from NFIB brings up another argument against the ACA. The group says that, starting in 2014, a new tax on fully funded health insurance products will go into effect. This tax is levied on insurance providers, but NFIB asserts that it will be passed on to businesses in the form of higher premiums. According to the organization, the tax “will raise $8 billion in 2014, rise to $14.3 billion in 2018, and the amount will continue to increase by the rate of premium growth for subsequent years.” Calling this a “small business health insurance tax,” NFIB says it “will cost small businesses and their employees $102 billion in the first 10 years, and over $200 billion in the following 10 years.”

Writing recently in Forbes, Richard Lorenzen, CEO of Fifth Avenue Brands, argued that the ACA benefits small businesses in a manner not often mentioned: “The ugly truth is that one in four small-business owners in the U.S. are uninsured. The number one benefit of the Affordable Care Act for entrepreneurs and business owners is that they can now afford their own health insurance. In fact, the Affordable Care Act will allow 83 percent of currently uninsured small business owners to become eligible for health-care coverage.”