The implications of the Healthcare bill's latest bribe by Team Obama for non-union businesses in America are huge. The exemption from the tax on Cadillac Plans for union members stands to be the biggest recruiting tool in the history of managed labor.
Non-union companies will convert overnight and will drive up costs and reducing competitiveness. This bribe will shift even greater burdens to an ever dwindling pool of non-union, non-Nebraskan, non-Floridian senior, non-Louisianan, non-State and Federal employee, and now, non-Amish. As the party of "non" shrinks it will be interesting if Obama's new party of privilege can survive as the party that provides dies out. What if all companies moved to Nebraska or Louisiana; or joined unions; or if seniors moved to Florida en masse; or what if we all become Amish? There are some very problematic scenarios created by the bribes that have moved this administration's agenda forward.
Turner Echols
Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA
