Baucas Bill will lead to employer discrimination of low income people.

[Thickasabrick]

It will be hard as hell to prove and the people who will be screwed the most are the poorest. Excellent article from Digby and would suggest you read the whole thing:

The proposal has serious flaws, including the following:

Biasing Hiring and Firing Decisions Against Low-Income Workers

* The proposal would make it considerably more expensive for employers to hire workers from lower-income families than workers from higher-income backgrounds to do the same job. As a result, it would distort hiring decisions. Employers would have strong incentives to tilt hiring toward people who have a spouse with a good income (or have health coverage through a family member), teenagers whose parents make a decent living, and people without children (since the eligibility limit for the subsidies in the new health insurance exchanges will increase with family size). Low-income women with children in one-earner families would be particularly disadvantaged

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/balking-at-baucus-by-digby-theres-lot.html

[Laelth]

1. Important consideration. Recommended. n/t

:dem:

-Laelth

[Mojambo]

2. This bill is staggeringly unfair to the poor and working class

Which distinguishes it very little from 99% of all legislation that's been proposed over the last 30 years.

There is a very deep hatred of the poor in this country and it's becoming more overt.

[CrispyQ]

6. "There is a very deep hatred of the poor in this country and it's becoming more overt."

Truer words were never spoken. America is a mean & harsh country.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. So What

It doesn't harm bankers, so why should I worry my precious mind about it?

[truedelphi]

4. It will lead to? What planet are you on. That is already how it is.

Once you are poor, jobs are hard to come by.

If you are expecting to get on the employer's health insurance rolls and you're over 45, look out. They will not hire you,a s they cannot afford the hit they will take with your addition.

If you have a bad credit rating, they will not hire you.

And since you need good credit to lease an apartment or a house, you may be living in your car.

One of the things that the Obama Administration has done is to ignore the poor. (Except for the photo ops at Thanksgiving.) I cannot think of a single appointment that he has made wherein an advocate for the elderly or the impoverished has gotten a position of power.

And horror of horrors - His finacial geniuses (Bernanke and Geithner) straightened out the banking situation in such a way that the private small family farm is now in the dumpster, as the price of grain got bid up by all the Wall St speculaters at the same time the price of milk dropped. Once the family farms are finished, it will be even harder to come by organic goods at a decent price.

(also - I did give this Op a K & R. The article is excellent. I only object to that one sentence.)

[Schema Thing]

5. It's a joke. It's like something the Republicans would bring.

[Mojambo]

7. See MA under Romney. n/t