Thought police: Firms must swear health law not a factor in firings

[thisnumbersdisconnected]

Fox News: Firms risk perjury in swearing firings are not designed to avoid ACA​

Is the latest delay of ObamaCare regulations politically motivated? Consider what administration officials announcing the new exemption for medium-sized employers had to say about firms that might fire workers to get under the threshold and avoid hugely expensive new requirements of the law. Obama officials made clear in a press briefing that firms would not be allowed to lay off workers to get into the preferred class of those businesses with 50 to 99 employees. How will the feds know what employers were thinking when hiring and firing? Simple. Firms will be required to certify to the IRS – under penalty of perjury – that ObamaCare was not a motivating factor in their staffing decisions. To avoid ObamaCare costs you must swear that you are not trying to avoid ObamaCare costs. You can duck the law, but only if you promise not to say so.

-- Chris Stirewalt, Fox News​

Ohhhhh-k!

Wonderful! Now the healthcare law becomes an excuse to put on trial anyone considered an enemy of the state by using a trumped up perjury charge against them.

My answer to that

 

[Gina B]

But - what if that IS the problem and you just can't afford it? You're just not allowed to say that's the problem, and have to lie instead and pin it on the employee, or be punished?

 

[thisnumbersdisconnected]

But - what if that IS the problem and you just can't afford it? You're just not allowed to say that's the problem, and have to lie instead and pin it on the employee, or be punished?

That seems to be the case, yes. Lie if you have to, but of course, it is perjury to lie and say they weren't fired because of the ACA, if they actually were fired because of the ACA. Forget the fact the U.S. government is suborning perjury. They'll say they never told anyone that.

 

[OldRegular]

And some insist Obama is not a skinny dictator. I am not sure whether they resent the descriptive skinny or the fact he is a dictator. A novice to be sure but he learns however slowly!

 

[church mouse guy]

At last we have proof that Obama uses the IRS to suppress free speech. The problem is that this healthcare plan is a huge tax increase. No Americans are allowed to admit that they can't afford the tax, which would reflect badly on our Democrat masters.

 

[Don]

That seems to be the case, yes. Lie if you have to, but of course, it is perjury to lie and say they weren't fired because of the ACA, if they actually were fired because of the ACA. Forget the fact the U.S. government is suborning perjury. They'll say they never told anyone that.

But...but...how else are we going to force those businesses to do what we want them to do?

 

[Revmitchell]

But - what if that IS the problem and you just can't afford it? You're just not allowed to say that's the problem, and have to lie instead and pin it on the employee, or be punished?

Yes it is called perpetrating propoganda. It is the liberal way. Cut off public discussion and control the message. And it is evil.

 

[FollowTheWay]

Yes it is called perpetrating propoganda. It is the liberal way. Cut off public discussion and control the message. And it is evil.

Does anyone have a reputable source for this statement? Everyone knows that Fox News provides right-wing proganda not the truth.

 

[Bro. Curtis]

FTW, the entire article is sourced and linked.

 

[Salty]

Does anyone have a reputable source for this statement? Everyone knows that Fox News provides right-wing proganda not the truth.

Can you give us three example of when Fox lied?

 

[OldRegular]

I posted the story earlier and some of these fine folks simply would not believe it!