Posted by
Roxanna M. on Thursday, October 07, 2010 10:42:24 AM
The small business employer sat at his desk looking out the window and brooding. Things were getting bad. Health insurance was going up. Workers' compensation insurance was going up. Unemployment insurance was going up. The only thing that wasn't going up was his income.
Added to all this was the uncertainty created by a congress that would not bring up the subject of extending the Bush tax cuts. If congress only extended those tax cuts for people earning under $250,000, then he was looking at increased taxes in 2011 as well.
While looking out his window, he noticed something in the parking lot. He grabbed a pen and paper, went out to the parking lot, and jotted down the license numbers of some cars.
He then called a meeting of all his employees. When they had assembled, he read off the license numbers and asked the owners to step forward. When they had all done so, he said they were fired.
These people were understandably upset and asked why. He told them the grim economic news and that he had no choice but to let them go. By why them, they asked.
He told these people that he had seen the Obama stickers on their cars. Since they supported this man and voted for this man, they must support his policies, including extended unemployment benefits, Obamacare, and no extension of the Bush tax cuts for people earning over $250,000, like him.
It's only fair, he said, that they should accept the consequences of the policies of the man they voted for. It wouldn't be fair, he said, to make the employees who didn't support Obama and didn't vote for him bear the brunt of policies they don't support.