{"id":18311,"date":"2013-07-02T20:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18311"},"modified":"2013-07-02T20:00:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T00:00:53","slug":"the-next-time-liberals-try-to-play-the-populist-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18311\/the-next-time-liberals-try-to-play-the-populist-card\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Time Liberals Try to Play the Populist Card &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; remind them of this announcement from earlier today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2013\/07\/obamacare-provision-postponed-93677.html#ixzz2Xw3nwRgC\" target=\"_blank\">in <em>Politico<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Obama administration is postponing the federal health care law\u2019s  insurance mandate for employers next year, in a major concession to the  business community and lawmakers who have become increasingly vocal  about the law\u2019s potential to damage a slowly recovering economy.<\/p>\n<p>The  announcement doesn\u2019t affect the main coverage tools in the law \u2014 the  individual mandate and the new subsidized insurance markets. But it  could boost the cost of the law if more people end up seeking subsidies  instead of getting covered on the job.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course, this is great news in one respect. Going a little longer without one of the most economically damaging aspects of Obamacare kicking in is a very good thing.<\/p>\n<p>But note the irony that there&#8217;s no delay on applying the individual mandate. If Joe Taxpayer doesn&#8217;t comply, the government will be at his door with a bill in no time flat.<\/p>\n<p>Washington&#8217;s willing to wait when it comes to sticking it to business. But when the little guy is the one who&#8217;s ox is getting gored? No such luck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; remind them of this announcement from earlier today in Politico: The Obama administration is postponing the federal health care law\u2019s insurance mandate for employers next year, in a major concession to the business community and lawmakers who have become increasingly vocal about the law\u2019s potential to damage a slowly recovering economy. The announcement doesn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4186,1427,12,311,35,601],"class_list":["post-18311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cronyism","tag-employer-mandate","tag-health-care","tag-individual-mandate","tag-obamacare","tag-populism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18314,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18311\/revisions\/18314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}