(June 30, 2014 at 9:07 pm)Jenny A Wrote: I don't mind the idea that the owners of closely held corporations have 1st Amendment rights. I do mind the idea that for profit companies or business owners can get away without paying for legally mandated employee benefits just because they object to them on religious grounds.
"Closely-held" companies amount to around 90% of employers in the US.
It's a bullshit metric. The only real solution to this is for workers to quit / strike en masse, we get our shit together with single payer health care, or we amend the Constitution ala the ongoing response to the Citizen's United ruling.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal
