Limbaugh: Maryland health care law is "govt-sanctioned rape"

[edbermac]

Limbaugh: Maryland employee health care law is "government-sanctioned rape"

During the January 13 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh described a Maryland bill requiring for-profit companies with 10,000 or more employees to spend at least 8 percent of their payrolls on employee health care as the "government-sanctioned rape of an American business."

Limbaugh speculated that the bill, vetoed by Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R), with the veto overridden by the General Assembly, was designed "to snare Wal-Mart but not many other corporations," given the bill's applicability to only companies with 10,000 or more employees. As The Washington Post noted on April 6, 2005, three employers besides Wal-Mart meet the bill's employee threshold -- Johns Hopkins University, Giant Food, and Northrop Grumman Corp. -- but they already meet the bill's requirements for 8 percent (corporations) or 6 percent (nonprofit institutions) of payroll to be spent on employee healthcare.

LIMBAUGH: I think this -- we've talked about this at great length on this program. This is nothing else -- it's nothing other than a government-sanctioned rape. This is a government sanctioned-rape of an American business.

This -- you -- yeah, we just had hearings in an all-powerful Supreme Court. You going to take away a woman's right to choose? Are you going to do that? Are you going to do this? What the hell is going on in the state of Maryland?

Probably, the only such company in this size, in the -- in the state. I mean, there's a reason they went after companies with 10,000 or more employees. It was, it was a way to snare Wal-Mart but not many others.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200601190007

Speaking of which, Rush...how many times a week does Daryn stick you with her 12 inch strap-on?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. That's the only kind of rape that Rush sees as bad

I'm sure if a woman was raped he'd say "she asked for it" and insist that she be forced to have any child that may have been conceived.

[Inland]

2. Rush thinks rape should be left to private intiative. nt

[bridgit]

3. well, but we all know limbaugh's mind is diseased...

:nopity: for limbaugh either :thumbsdown:

[lpbk2713]

4. As usual, Limbo trivializes sexual assault to make a point

for the benefit of his fat-cat capitalist masters. As if they need more gold plumbing fixtures or multi-million dollar parties for their kids.

[Inland]

8. Well, I think he was using "rape" as defined by

the pillaging of a conquered people by a foreign invader......Well, he's still a fucking tool, because under that definition he still said somehting that trivializes assault. Rush, it's a TAX, you fucker. It's not stealing, it's not theft, it's not rape.

[napi21]

5. The process IS associated with RAPE, but

it's WM doing the raping! For any company to be allowed to issue instructions to their employees on how to collect health benefits from the State just so THEY can save money IS rape...OF THE CITIZENS OF THAT STATE!

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. He's at the Bob Hope Chrysler Classic in CA this week.

Maybe he'll get struck by lightning.

[edbermac]

12. Damn, I hope some CA DU'ers go there and heckle him..

"Hey Rush, meet me at Denny's after this round" and other niceties...

Or maybe he'll get hit in the nuts by an errant golf ball, or have some loony greenskeeper blow the golf course up...

[BlueJazz]

7. Well..Rush..It's this way... >>

One of the Government's responsibilities is to keep large powerful (with Lobbyists) Corporations from Raping
the General Public and it's Workers.

And..WalMart?..I'm sick and tired of my Tax Dollars being used to give Health Services to your employees because you're to much of a pack of Sons-A-Bitches to do the right thing...In Short..The Free Ride is OVER.

[texastoast]

9. So the government should sanction

Taxpayer "rape"? The taxpayers should pay for the health care of Maryland's Mall-Wart employees while the CEO gets multimillions at the hog trough?

Now Rush, you aren't advocating THAT, are you, pussball?

Edited to compound "pussball"

[fasttense]

10. His OxyContin hasn't kicked in yet. n/t

[AValdoux]

11. This is the same man...

...who compared health insurance to planning for a vacation. You get what you plan for & can afford.


AValdoux

[baldguy]

13. Gov't sanctioned rape?

Cheney's energy task force gave me a $350 gas bill last month. (Normally its $70-80)