NFIB Endorses Hurt, Perriello Scoffs
By Jason Johnson | Wednesday, September 15th, 2010 | PoliticsOn Tuesday, the National Federation of Independent Business, “America’s leading small business association,” announced its endorsement of state Sen. Robert Hurt in the 5th Congressional District race.
“Robert Hurt is a small business owner and NFIB member, which makes this endorsement especially meaningful,” said Lisa Goeas, NFIB’s vice president for political operations. “Our small business membership knows that Robert is one of their own, which means they are even more likely to actively support his candidacy by encouraging their employees, friends and family members to turn out and vote for him on election day.”
“As a member of the Virginia General Assembly, Robert Hurt has also been recognized as an NFIB Guardian of Small Business,” Goeas pointed out. “This means that he has a voting record to show he is able to translate his own perspective as a business owner into policies that let small business do what it does best, which is grow the economy and create jobs.”
In explaining why its “Save America’s Free Enterprise Trust” chose to endorse Sen. Hurt, the NFIB listed multiple issues that factored into its decision, among those: healthcare, taxes, labor issues and and regulations. This explanation, however, did not deter Rep. Tom Perriello from criticizing the endorsement, implying that he is actually the better choice for small business owners:
Today, Senator Hurt again reiterated his pledge to repeal the recently enacted Affordable Care Act, which is providing a 35% tax credit to small businesses this year to help them afford the cost of health care for their employees.
…’Small businesses in the 5th district will be in for a rude awakening when they realize Robert Hurt has already pledged to raise their taxes by 35% next year and limit their choices of health care options. Given Robert Hurt’s record of voting to raise taxes on businesses, it’s clear Virginia small businesses can’t afford a world of Hurt,’ said Jessica Barba, spokeswoman for the Perriello campaign.
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7 Responses to "NFIB Endorses Hurt, Perriello Scoffs"
I think there is some truth from both ways to come at this subject.
Who can deny that health care costs for employees and their families are a big drain on the profits of employers? Please bear with me. Why should businesses doing business in America be saddled with providing American employees with the costs of their health care? If they employ Chinese or Mexican workers in China or Mexico, they do not have to pay these costs.
Now, I am going to test the limits. American employers should not have to pay the costs of providing health care costs for American laborers. There should be no penalty for providing jobs in America. It should not be the responsibility of business to provide health care. We want American businesses to be mean and lean.
Call me a socialist if you want, but I think we need a limited socialized health care system paid for through an income tax. We need to provide health care for voters or voters will voice their displeasure at the polls. We need to keep American businesses competitive and saddling American businesses with ever increasing health care costs does not do that.
Call me a socialist for saying so, but we need to provide limited socialized medicine to every American citizen and free American businesses from this expense. It is not the perfect answer, but perfection is not out there until Jesus comes back. Socialized medicine paid for through an income tax is not the perfect answer, but it is the best solution until the return of Jesus when he will teach us the better way.
@LittleDavid,
We already have it…its Medicare and Medicaid. That is intended to take care of the less fortunate. You need to take care of your own healthcare. Pay for it yourself.
Don’t worry, Socialist is not what comes to mind.
David: Thanks for your comments!
I don’t necessarily disagree: the high cost of healthcare is placing our nation’s workforce at a competitive disadvantage to the workforces in nations such as China, Mexico and India. Yet, as George Will illustrates http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/29/AR2005042901385.html, health insurance is but one hindrance to the success of our business sector. Nonetheless, I am confused as to why, if it’s unfair to saddle American-based businesses with the ever-increasing cost of health insurance, the government should be saddled with such an ever-increasing expense? Where in the Constitution is it even implied that this might be an acceptable role for government? When we’re already having difficulty maintaining the solvency of existent entitlement programs, why add another–even larger–entitlement?
Invariably the system you propose will lead to the same end: ever higher taxes, greater debt, fewer/rationed healthcare services, poorer quality care, etc. I agree that this is a significant problem, but I don’t see how a truly socialist healthcare system will improve anything for anyone.
2 years ago, an employer could simply not provide health ins for its employees. This employer may have been a start-up company that could not afford it or a company that just decided it didn’t want to spend money in that way.
but with the new Obamacare, the employer must provide some kind of health insurance or be fined. that puts a financial onus on this employer.
Perriello voted for it. he told our townhall in Kenbridge that the bill would cost taxpayers /ZERO. But duh, the bill cuts some money from entitlements in order to come out “revenue neutral”, but these entitlement funds will have to be voted back in at a later time. That is just an accounting trick.
and Perriello failed to mention that the IRS who will be managing our healthcare, will have to hire at least 60,000 new employees for this job. What? they’ll work for free?
Perriello was wrong to vote for this over the loud voices of his constituents. Perriello is wrong to spout the Dem lies about this bill. We will vote Perriello out on November 2.
LD:
“We need to provide health care for voters or voters will voice their displeasure at the polls.”
Excuse me, but “we” have provided health care for voters, in the way of Obamacare, and voters, at least 60% of them, are voicing their displeasure. The only difference is the voters haven’t had a widespread opportunity to get to the polls yet. But just wait until November.
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