Companies Forced to “Swear” That Layoffs AREN’T From Obamacare

Companies Forced to “Swear” That Layoffs AREN’T From Obamacare

If private firms plan to stay in business under Obamacare, there are several things they can do to mitigate the explosive costs.
They could raise prices, cut hours, freeze hiring, and/or lay people off. The only other option essentially is running at a loss and eventually going out of business.
All of this is already happening; except instead of doing the rational thing of, I don’t know, repealing the economically destructive law, the White House is now forcing companies lie about why they are having to lay people off, “swearing” to the IRS that Obamacare wasn’t the root of their layoffs.

PJ Media elaborates:

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.
Company officials will be trapped in a catch-22. They can lay off as many people as they want because of Obamacare. But because they’ll have to swear to the IRS that their decisions had nothing to do with Obamacare, they can’t speak publicly about what’s happening. What a great way to silence the people who are on the front lines of dealing with Obamacare’s horrific effects.

It is bad enough that Obama’s namesake law is forcing companies to choose between employing people or staying in business, but censoring them by forbidding them to speak publicly about the truth behind their layoffs just adds insult to injury.
The time to flat-out repeal Obamacare is well overdue. No delays, no defunding… That just kicks the can down the road. We need to throw the entire law out before anyone else gets hurt. If you agree, help us spread the word by sharing this article on Facebook and Twitter.