Why are they shedding workers? Do they not already have a group policy available to their eligible employees?
Obamatax is not the only problem. Did you see the article this morning about the carbon tax? This administration looks at businesses as cash cows and business owners are tired of getting milked.
The president told the senators that he still believes the best way for us to transition to a clean energy economy is with a bill that makes clean energy the profitable kind of energy for Americas businesses by putting a price on pollution because when companies pollute, they should be responsible for the costs to the environment and their contribution to climate change, according to a White House readout of the closed-door session with about 20 senators.
Not all of the senators agreed with this approach, the statement added, and the president welcomed other approaches and ideas.
Democratic senators who attended the meeting said afterward that Obama argued passionately for pricing carbon emissions. But they also acknowledged Republican resistance, and are trying to find a compromise that can win enough votes to pass. One Senate leader on the issue, John Kerry (D) of Massachusetts, said he and Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I) of Connecticut are ready to scale back the reach of our legislation to gain more support.
Last year, the House passed energy and climate-change legislation, but its ambitious cap and trade system for limiting carbon emissions is a nonstarter in the Senate.
Still, Senator Lieberman, speaking from the White House driveway after Tuesdays meeting, sounded an encouraging note on the prospect for compromise with Republicans.
A very important thing that happened around the table is that some of our colleagues who up until this time had been at least publicly reluctant about the polluter pays, putting a price on carbon pollution, said that theyd be willing to discuss limited terms of doing that in this bill. And to me thats a breakthrough, Lieberman said, according to ABC News.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politi...rice-on-carbon-emissions.-Republicans-see-tax.