Monday, October 6th, 2008
Last week's Rocky Mountain News reports:
Colorado labor and business leaders announced a joint effort to defeat three contentious anti-union measures on November's ballot, ending weeks of intense negotiations toward forging an unprecedented alliance.
In return for the business community's pledge to help fight a "right-to-work" measure and two other amendments targeting ...
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
Forcing employers to buy medical insurance for their employees results in lower wages, lost jobs for the poor, and other undesirable outcomes. One is that companies simply close. Writes Karen Kristopeit-Parker, in a letter to the Denver Post:
I have owned the Fresh Fish Company in Denver for four years. I was able to ...
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
From last week's Rocky Mountain News:
Coloradans for Responsible Reform, backed by the Denver Metro Chamber and Defend Our Economy, a group made up largely of service, retail and tourism businesses, said Friday they have joined forces to fight four proposed amendments this fall.
One of them is the union-backed "Employer Responsibility for ...
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
For those who support employer-sponsored insurance and forcing employers to do it, e.g., via Colorado Ballot Initiative 92 ("Employer Responsibility for Health Insurance"), consider this: employer-sponsored insurance interferes with what jobs we choose and our choice to get married. These are rather significant parts of our lives, which we should choose for reasons ...
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Supporters of the union-sponsored Colorado Amendment 56 ("Employer Responsibility for Health Insurance") want to make it a crime for employers of 20 or more people not to offer them health insurance. When government forces employers to buy you insurance, employers respond by paying you less. This can put minorities and women out of ...
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
The Cato Institute has published Michael Tanner's detailed analysis of the presidential candidate's proposals. As one can expect from Michael Tanner, it's very well researched, accessible, and packed with useful facts. Here's part of the summary:
Senator McCain's proposal is far from perfect, but from a free-market perspective, it appears superior to Senator ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
From Monday's Denver Post:
the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 plans to submit its signatures for a pair of initiatives Wednesday. The UFCW measures would mandate companies with 20 or more employees to provide health-care coverage... [Amendment 56]
To get a clear picture of how this mandate would play out, ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
Who would support a self-serving political agenda at the expense of your health, wealth, and job mobility? AFL-CIO president John Sweeney and Colorado executive director Mike Cerbo.
In a recent Denver Post commentary, they perpetuate the big lie behind politician-controlled medicine: "that the free market is not working," and that consequently, ...
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Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
The Denver Post reported last week that the United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 is pushing a ballot initiative (Amendment 56) that would make criminals out of any Colorado company for not buying their employers insurance. Companies employing fewer than twenty people are exempt.*
The Union calls it the initiative "Employee Responsibility for Health Insurance." I'd ...
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