I'm not partisan at all, nor did I forget about Obamacare. I'm just not seeing any evidence that connects Obamacare, to shorter working hours. We've been working shorter and shorter working hours for more than a century.
There is no reason to believe that Obamacare is having that effect. Most large employers already paid for insurance, so I don't see how that would have effected them again. Most smaller employers, the types that tended to have part time employees, are exempt from the employer mandate.
Do you have any evidence that indicates Obamacare is having anything to do with more part timers, other than anti-obamacare rhetoric? And can you explain why the percentage of part time employees was increasing BEFORE Obama was even elected? Or why it soared up during the time gap between the start of the Great Bush Recession but prior to Obamacare?
Seriously, if you have any evidence that indicates causation, I'd like to see it. And rhetoric isn't evidence, it's just talk.
There's every reason to believe ObamaCare is having that effect.
A recent survey found that a year before the Business mandate goes into effect that nearly 1/3 of franchised Businesses have replaced full time workers with part time workers.
With another 30 percent cutting their workers hours.
That's not indicative of a long winded trend. That's indicative of destructive regulations that exist in the ACA.
The CBO stated that Labor participation rates wouldn't return to pre- recession levels for another decade and they cited the subsidies contained within the ACA as the primary reason.
When Gruber got busted calling the American voter idiots the Democrats passed it off as a one off comment by a guy no one knew. His opinion of the American voter wasn't shared by anyone.
But thats BS..
All Liberals believe that. At least the Elites do.
The BS rhetoric and lies about " affordability " and "access " to quality health care when they were trying to push this abortion of a law down our throats prove it.
This law mandating higher cost and a arbitrary minimum coverage for all Americans regardless of health was going to be economically inconsequential.
No, it was going to be " deficit neutral ".
Seriously ? Did anyone actually believe that ?
It mandates higher cost on Businesses and Corporations and raises taxes as it increases premiums and deductibles for Middle class Americans.
Bussinesses will simply pass their increased cost on to the consumer just as the tax increases contained in the ACA will be passed on to the Consumer.
On top of that it removed the Insurance companies ability to price policies based on actuarial tables which is an additional cost increase for the average Middle class American Family.
Hey, the Government is going to mandate a level of quality when it comes to Health Insurance no matter how healthy or unhealthy we are.
Sounds great ! If people only knew how much thats going to cost them.
Every aspect of that law targets the Middle-class.
It just robs the Consumer on so many different levels and it does it under the pretense of " affordability