tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post3523714685587546783..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: Steve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-7921926728985885852013-11-29T12:17:19.068-05:002013-11-29T12:17:19.068-05:00'I have coverage for my pre-existing condition...'I have coverage for my pre-existing conditions?!? No Take Backs!!!' I shouted.<br /><br />'Ha ha ha, you're part of the 47% my friend, you don't matter,' retorted Mitt Romney.<br /><br />'Awww,' says I. 'Well can I at least pay a higher percentage of my paltry poverty levels wages in taxes than you do on hundreds of millions of defered income you claim?'<br /><br />'Of course, that's what the poor are for,' grinned Mitt as he pressed the button for the 4th floor of his car elevator.Grung_e_Genehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01894879088472559055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-63666301103096083782013-11-28T16:36:05.839-05:002013-11-28T16:36:05.839-05:00aimai,
I'm afraid you're holding the ratc...aimai,<br /><br />I'm afraid you're holding the ratchet backwards. Once the "right" to disregard laws because of one's deeply-held beliefs (ohhh, so deep!) has been granted, it will be impossible to take it away. <br /><br />If personhood is transitive from individuals to corporations, then it must also be so the other way round. And that why I say that this is not about the status of corporations, because some forms of the "deeply-held-beliefs exemption" are already in place for individuals.<br /><br />This, for example, is what "stand your ground" is really about: the right to assassinate your neighbor in cold blood, because he is too that, or insufficiently this.<br />Frank Wilhoithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800594066476167549noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-18567338845310796442013-11-28T15:39:07.629-05:002013-11-28T15:39:07.629-05:00Where the ACA changes things a bit for individuals...Where the ACA changes things a bit for individuals is that it shifts the discussion of healthcare from the rights of the employer (to give or withold) and onto a notion of every citizen as entitled to continuous, affordable, healthcare regardless of the employer. The hobby lobby nullfication movement (thanks Frank!) is part of the pushback but ultimately individuals are going to become used to *being entitled* to health care coverage whether through their employer or in some other fashion.<br /><br />Lets say that the Supreme Court rules "For" Hobby Lobby--the next congerss will simply fix the issue by creating a new part to the law which entitles people to portability in health care--and which strips Employers of their tax credits for providing health care if hte health care is substandard. There are about a million ways for a Democratic Congress--if we ever get one back--to fuck over Hobby Lobby and other corporations trying to use the religious dodge.<br /><br />Meanwhile: individual workers will start to recognize that their health care is in fact something that they pay for, and that they are entitled to, whether the employer is the pass through or not.aimaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03956073425680585780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-65979705324832458002013-11-28T15:26:01.409-05:002013-11-28T15:26:01.409-05:00The Hobby Lobby thing is about faith-based nullifi...The Hobby Lobby thing is about faith-based nullification. Never think or talk about it any other way.Frank Wilhoithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17800594066476167549noreply@blogger.com