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When every dollar of salary you earn costs you two dollars in government benefits, what’s the incentive to ever work harder? Sitting in front of the TV all day instead of searching for a job suddenly makes good economic sense. Obamacare makes hard work and success fiscal liabilities. When your salary goes up, so does that gigantic health care premium. And — while premiums are skyrocketing — wages are remaining stagnant.

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Meanwhile, if you’re determined to rise despite the disincentives, Obamacare is one step ahead of you. If you work more than 30 hours a week, you’re a full-time employee, and the company you work for (if it employs more than 50 people) has to offer you affordable coverage. In the progressive anti-logic, la-la land of unicorns and rainbows, where “happy” and “sad” are economic indicators and victimhood is the standard currency, that means everyone with a full-time job will magically have affordable coverage offered by their employer. Unfortunately, in Reality-ville, where the working class lives, it means “so long, full-time job!” It means you get cut to 29 hours a week. It means three part-time jobs become the new normal.

And thanks to its heavy taxes on the rich, Obamacare manages to beat up on every single income group.

If the goal is to keep kids in their parents’ basements until they hit middle age, place a massive burden on the shoulders of working class Americans, and stifle the economy by overtaxing job creators, Obamacare is tops.

Otherwise, it’s the meanest, nastiest thing that Washington has coughed up this millennium. That’s why working-class Americans have voted in three major elections for the leaders who want to scrap it.

Eddie Zipperer is an assistant professor of political science at Georgia Military College and a regular LifeZette contributor.[lz_pagination]