Punish, with criminal sanctions, businesses who close down or reduce FT jobs [View all]

[BanTheGOP]

A lot of millionaires and billionaires who refuse to pay the reduced health care costs that Obamacare would provide are closing their businesses, most for spite. A lot of progressives and other workers are getting the shaft because of this greed for business owners who want to take their money and shove it into banks in the Cayman Islands. As more and more of these greedy bastards close their doors and run away from the problems that THEY caused through their republicanist greed, the entire unemployment situation will blow up in many cities.

Another problem is that many businesses, to get out of paying for Obamacare, will opt to only hire workers for less than 30 hours a week, which is the threshold for the trigger. This means they will be reducing the number of job hours for individuals, and take away their benefits that they've had for decades.

President Obama needs to create a Secretary of Business, whose FIRST order of business it to create a regulation to do two things on an IMMEDIATE basis:

1. Create a heavy fine or criminal violation for reducing the number of employees just to make sure they don't have to comply with Obamacare requirements. This fine should be severe enough so that committing a violation will have a detrimental effect on the business if the law is vioated.

2. Create a heavy fine for reducing the hours of existing employees. Create a mandatory ratio that businesses must adhere to, such as no more than one part-time employee for every full-time employee. This will reduce the amount of hour-slashing that will no doubt occur.

3. Make these fines retroactive to the beginning of 2011, which is the earliest that such a law can be constitutionally enforced.

In addition, states should consider fining companies who leave the state to reestablish in another state. Strict monitoring must be done for the business ownership so they don't skirt rules. This will be hard to enforce, but if the laws are in place, they will be put on notice so there will be a lot more compliance.

These steps will be necessary in the coming months, so they should be instituted as SOON as POSSIBLE, otherwise more workers will lose their jobs.