Posted On: January 13, 2006, 2:10 pm CST

Posted By: Chris

This has nothing to do with healthcare for Wal-Mart employees. The head of Wal-Mart Watch, an organization set up and run by unions, says it all when he talks about making the state "friendlier for smaller firms."

Translated, this means increasing the cost of Wal-Mart doing business, so that firms that are organized are more competitive with non-unionized Wal-Mart. That way, the unions maintain their dues paying membership levels, and the union fat-cats keep their ludicrous salaries, perks, etc. Oh, and don't have to go back to actually working for a living.

What the unions couldn't accomplish in the workplace is now being accomplished thru unconstitutional legislation, as a sop to all those campaign dollars from the unions.

If making sure that private sector workers were insured in Maryland so that the state wasn't footing the bill was a legitimate social engineering goal, the "floor" for being subject to the legislation wouldn't be set so that only one employer is targeted; the requirement would apply to all employers, period.