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To: Sully- who wrote (80002)5/28/2010 2:22:24 AM
From: Sully-  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 90947
 
National Federation of Independent Business joins 20 states in lawsuit against Obamacare

By: Mark Hemingway
Commentary Staff Writer
05/27/10 12:30 PM EDT

Dan Danner, president and CEO of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today. The NFIB, the biggest small business advocacy group in the country, is joining the lawsuit filed by 20 states challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare:

<<< For decades small business owners have been telling anyone who would listen that they need health-care reforms that lower costs. But President Obama and his allies in Congress pushed through a law that will dramatically raise health-care costs and increase the overall cost of doing business. What’s more, the federal mandate requiring that nearly all U.S. residents carry health insurance by 2014 seriously threatens our basic constitutional rights and individual freedoms.

This is why the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), on behalf of small business owners nationwide, has joined the lawsuit with 20 states mounting a constitutional challenge to this devastating new health-care law.

This law is death by a thousand cuts for small business owners. According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the overhaul will cost about $115 billion more than first projected, bringing the total to more than $1 trillion. Small businesses will also now have to deal with an onslaught of new taxes and burdensome paperwork. >>>

Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com