Which is exactly the response that was predicted if ObamaCare was upheld.

ObamaCare punishes businesses which employ more than 50 employees full-time by requiring them to purchase expensive health insurance plans that many businesses simply cannot afford (from Democrat Party donors, no less.)

So, of course, businesses will stop doing this, since they're being PUNISHED for having more than 50 full-time employees.

They're responding exactly as was predicted:

• They're laying off people to get under 50 employees to avoid the punitive taxes now associated with growing your business and providing jobs.

• They're cutting hours and eliminating full-time work to avoid the punitive taxes now associated with providing full-time employment to people.

• The people being laid off and having their hours cut are now subject to $2,000 a year fines for not having health insurance.

These outcomes are neither unexpected, nor undesired. They were the goal of this legislation.

Obama and the Democrats don't WANT you to be able to find a full-time job. They want you on food stamps and he wants you too poor to afford a phone, so that you have to get an ObamaPhone and thus, be beholden to the Dear Leader.

This legislation accomplishes that mission.

It punishes employers who give employees full-time jobs, and it punishes employers who attempt to grow their businesses beyond 50 employees.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

Obama knows this.