Score One For Free Enterprise
This is good news:
A federal judge yesterday overturned a Maryland law that required Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to spend at least 8 percent of its payroll costs on health care for its employees.
When the government tells private business what it MUST spend on health care costs for its employees, or what it must spend for anything else, for that matter, we all lose. Wal-Mart is successful, therefore liberals hate it.
Maryland was the first state in the nation to pass legislation requiring Wal-Mart to pay a minimum amount on health care, over Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s veto. But similar legislation has been proposed or discussed in 30 other states.
Business groups and Mr. Ehrlich have said the law hurt the state's business reputation. "There's a trend here. It's overreaching, it's irresponsible, and fortunately in this state we have the people and the courts available to combat and in many cases negate this overreaching by [House Speaker] Mike Busch and [Senate President] Mike Miller," Mr. Ehrlich said yesterday.
That's right. The Left has to have its grubby hands on everything. Their response is typical:
Delegate Anne Healey, Prince George's County Democrat and the bill's lead sponsor in the House, said she will wait to see what the Attorney General's Office recommends as far as appealing or tweaking the law. "I'm very disappointed," she said yesterday. "Relying on what the Attorney General's Office had told us, I believed the bill and the law is not in violation of anything. It's a good law and it's not an undue burden."
"Judge Fred Motz is clearly more worried about Wal-Mart's bottom line than the bottom line of average working families in Maryland," said Terry Lierman, chairman of the Maryland Democratic Party. "He struck a terrible blow to the taxpayers of Maryland who will continue to pay for the health care of the massive Wal-Mart work force out of their hard-earned tax dollars."
Working families...that's their catch phrase. Apparently they don't care that Wal-Mart had threatened to pull out of Somerset County, where it planned to open a distribution center with over 1000 jobs. Liberals can't seem to look beyond their noses and see what the effects of their actions are. Hurting Wal-Mart eventually hurts the people who work for Wal-Mart. A middle-schooler could understand that, but a liberal can't.
Let's hope this decision holds up.
A federal judge yesterday overturned a Maryland law that required Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to spend at least 8 percent of its payroll costs on health care for its employees.
When the government tells private business what it MUST spend on health care costs for its employees, or what it must spend for anything else, for that matter, we all lose. Wal-Mart is successful, therefore liberals hate it.
Maryland was the first state in the nation to pass legislation requiring Wal-Mart to pay a minimum amount on health care, over Republican Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr.'s veto. But similar legislation has been proposed or discussed in 30 other states.
Business groups and Mr. Ehrlich have said the law hurt the state's business reputation. "There's a trend here. It's overreaching, it's irresponsible, and fortunately in this state we have the people and the courts available to combat and in many cases negate this overreaching by [House Speaker] Mike Busch and [Senate President] Mike Miller," Mr. Ehrlich said yesterday.
That's right. The Left has to have its grubby hands on everything. Their response is typical:
Delegate Anne Healey, Prince George's County Democrat and the bill's lead sponsor in the House, said she will wait to see what the Attorney General's Office recommends as far as appealing or tweaking the law. "I'm very disappointed," she said yesterday. "Relying on what the Attorney General's Office had told us, I believed the bill and the law is not in violation of anything. It's a good law and it's not an undue burden."
"Judge Fred Motz is clearly more worried about Wal-Mart's bottom line than the bottom line of average working families in Maryland," said Terry Lierman, chairman of the Maryland Democratic Party. "He struck a terrible blow to the taxpayers of Maryland who will continue to pay for the health care of the massive Wal-Mart work force out of their hard-earned tax dollars."
Working families...that's their catch phrase. Apparently they don't care that Wal-Mart had threatened to pull out of Somerset County, where it planned to open a distribution center with over 1000 jobs. Liberals can't seem to look beyond their noses and see what the effects of their actions are. Hurting Wal-Mart eventually hurts the people who work for Wal-Mart. A middle-schooler could understand that, but a liberal can't.
Let's hope this decision holds up.
posted by Jennifer at 3:22 AM
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