Nope, just a standard Vyxn thread about the ACA. Next thing you will see is him posting bullshit polls about how Americans want Obamacare repealed but if you tell them what the actual bill does they don't want it repealed.
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Just about every scandal that isn't tied to Obama you could think of. I mean Hooked is probably one of those people from Louisiana that thinks Obama is at fault for Katrina still even though he wasn't in office then.
How are you going to check? At bare minimum it's going to require an investigation for each business suspected of abusing this loophole, which requires more resources than are available at present. And at 3 grand a head, I suspect there's going to be a great many abuses. As much as I'd love to make the argument you're making (that businesses care about the long term) I can't stand with you on that platform.
There's already an expectation to break the law concerning the hiring of illegals. And for certain, without the added bonus of 3 thousand bucks, things like this already happen. Sometimes the offenders get caught, but most of the time they don't. Never mind that accusing a business for something that amounts to the crime of "hiring a Latino" is fraught with legal pitfalls that can and do become very expensive lawsuits. Seriously, are you going to ask a Latino if he is an illegal and expect any answer but "no, sir"?
Except pre-ACA there was no expectation for employers to provide healthcare for their employees, which meant less scrutiny. So either they're hiring illegals and providing them insurance and not risking exposure anymore than pre-ACA or they're hiring illegals and not insuring them and paying the fine for not providing insurance. Otherwise they're going to receive scrutiny due to the ACA, revealing the illegal nature of their hire, and they can't really argue that they didn't know when they refused to insure them or pay the fine.
Keeping illegal immigrants "illegal" is a subsidy to hiring them. It has always been cheaper to employ illegal aliens than legal workers. The legal workers have rights. Those rights have costs. If you want to employ workers without having to pay the costs associated with those rights, then just use illegal immigrants who can't go the courts for fear of deportation.
This isn't a new thing. The only thing new is that Washington Times is spinning this out about the ACA. But you can use the same logic for minimum wage, unionization rights (if you pretend they exist), overtime protections, wage theft, child labor, and just generalized abuse of your employees.
Or, y'know, they just don't list the worker on their payrolls and pay them from a non-payroll fund, which means the only way the authorities ever find out is if somebody goes and tips off the authorities in question. The initial accusation would be tantamount to racial profiling, by the way, because the thought process must necessarily be "wow, there are lots of Mexicans around. This seems suspicious..." Which means nobody's going to make that accusation which means the authorities won't catch wind of it and welcome to the end of the thought process, fashionably late as usual.
Nevermind that the operation would have to be large for it to not be a net waste of taxpayer resources; 3 grand a head is a lot to a small business but I'm betting it's cheaper for the authorities to let Pedro walk than it is to bring him in.
You think people aren't going to tip off the authorities? Prosecutors are going to be more interested in punishing businesses than deporting people who were contributing to the economy. Arguably there is a disincentive to hire illegals because of this.
Also, questioning the legal status of an employee based on the fact that the employer is not providing insurance nor paying the fine is not racial profiling.
You could fix this loophole with an amendment to the law itself.
Sides, workers, in realistic microeconomics, have their own set of skills and talents. The monetary incentive is really just a minor thing unless the work is really, really brain-dead easy that even a monkey could do it.
ACA threads are always a hoot here. No law sheds more light on the delusional world the leftist kids live in. Even Chuckie Schumer thinks passing the law was a huge mistake.
There are Old Divers. There are Bold Divers. There are no Old, Bold Divers.
You've been screaming lies, impeachment, and UnAmerican for a couple of years now all while saying "soon".
I'm sure when the bill's protections of consumers gets neutered by the Republicans, yet the mandate is still there, you'll call it a win.
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I get the feeling that Hooked's "soon" is like the Blizzard "soon", only Blizzard actually delivers.
2014 Gamergate: "If you want games without hyper sexualized female characters and representation, then learn to code!"
2023: "What's with all these massively successful games with ugly (realistic) women? How could this have happened?!"