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   From: spamcatch@spamcatch.org   
      
   On Sun, 26 May 2013 20:41:00 -0500, Tom McDonald    
   scrawled in blood:   
      
   >On 5/26/2013 8:14 PM, Scout wrote:   
      
   >> Well, let's see....we have employers shifting people to part time, and   
   >> yet more employers cutting the hours of their part timers so that in the   
   >> end they won't have to provide them with medical insurance. Then despite   
   >> this reduction in their income these people now MUST buy medical   
   >> insurance they can't afford or be hit with a massive punitive tax.   
   >   
   >Yup. We are seeing the fact that corporations cannot be trusted to think   
   >of anything but their bottom lines. That's OK, in the sense that they   
   >have fiduciary responsibilities to their owners. But that also means   
   >they can't be trusted to provide necessary benefits for their workers.   
      
   	Necessary by what objective standard?   
      
   >   
   >> Oh, but you say that's ok the 'government' (read as the American tax   
   >> payer) must now pick up the tax resulting in yet MORE taxation on them.   
   >   
   >We'll see. Negotiating for better prices across the entire medical   
   >enterprise would take care of that.   
      
   	No it wouldn't.   
      
      
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