Status based vs. belief based.
On Sep 30, 2012, at 10:10 PM, Arthur Spitzer wrote:
> I find Steve Jamar's post ("No one needs to be an employer") puzzling. Could
> Congress enact a statute providing "observant Roman Catholics (or Moslems, or
> Jews, or Seventh Day Adventists, or Mormons) may not be employers"?
>
> Would such a statute be different, in its burden on such people, from a
> statute saying "all employers must do X, when X is something that observant
> Roman Catholics (or Moslems, or Jews, or Seventh Day Adventists, or Mormons)
> cannot do?
>
> I'm not saying such a statute would be unconstitutional. I'm just asking if
> the burden would be different.
>
> Art Spitzer
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> On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Steven Jamar <stevenja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How about an employer being exempt from buying insurance, but then paying a
> tax that goes into a pool for the government to buy group insurance for those
> employees. How is that substantively different from just requiring the
> insurance benefit in the first place? And yet this sort of tax seemed ok to
> Mark. I don't see how this really insulates the employer from the complicity
> in evil through paying for it. Is the "agreement" (coerced agreement is
> agreement?) that different?
>
> Isn't the proper agreement the one between the employer and society that lets
> the employer exploit the economic system and all of its supports in exchange
> for doing business within the rules of commerce to be followed by everyone?
> That agreement may be one with the devil, but no one is making the person
> agree to it. No one needs to be an employer.
>
> Steve
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to hate him."
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