This chain estimates that it will cost $500,000 a year to comply with ACA. The surcharge brings in only $160,000 a year. So they will be running a deficit even when the employer mandate takes effect. They really should charge more. To their credit, the chain is not going to cut hours to evade the ACA costs.

The person spending money has to pay for their HC, the waitress's HC, the unemployed's HC, and the folks who made this law's HC.

The government via obamacare screws the employee then you fuck then more, or would that be backstabbing them,  by adjusting the tip. ….Classless.

that is how taxes work, they are passed on to the customer.  When I go buy new tires, I am charged an extra $1 per tire on a new tax for the EPA, supposedly to clean up the environment.  Obamacare is another way to tax us to death with inflation to the consumer.  It is a wonderful idea for everyone to have healthcare, it just came at a time when the majority of uninsured will still not be able to afford.  One of my best friends has a child with cystic fibrisos, she is single and works and now his medicine is going to cost her 12,000 a year out of pocket.  She is left to make some hard choices, sell her home that she has worked to pay for, quit her job, and give her son a few more years.  Not good.

Down here in Florida, every Insurance premium renewal bill I get, I, along with every other client, am billed a pretty good sum for the Florida state run insurance program for hurricane catastrophe funding.  No hurricanes in Fla lately, but we pay anyway.  All businesses pass their costs on to the consumer, a good public service to see how the unaffordable health care act is going to hit you in the pockets.

STOP going 'out' to breakfast/lunch/dinner. STOP buying cars(keep your present car for 10 years or more). Use filtered water from your sink instead of bottled water or soft drinks. Turn off the goddamn lights you're not using, Use cheap bar soap or "Dawn detergent" for showering and shampoo needs rather than designer body-washes and such. STOP doing home improvements, and do what needed repairs yourself if applicable. FUCK having a lawn requiring mowing and maintenance. Stop using credit cards and simply default if possible on what you presently owe. STOP buying alcohol, brew or distil your own. START growing your own Cannabis, or buy it from a private citizen who does/can grow it. Stop being a hypochondriac and buying every goddamn pill Big Pharma advertises. FUCK Revlon, FUCK Maybelline, and FUCK Grecian Formula for men.
STOP being a slave to Madison Avenue and the idiom of consumerism!  
Mankind didn't have 98% of the current products and services we now consider "staple" 200 years ago.

My front porch faces the east.  I had my coffee and smoke, chilling with my dog.  The sun beating down on us, the wind chimes playing a beautiful melody.  The cows laying down across the street, I see a hawk sweep through the trees without hitting a limb to get his prey.  

When I read your post my first reaction was, "here he goes again". Who is he pissed off at today? But when I thought about it, you generally described self-made millionaires. I'm not talking Buffett, Gates, Ellison, or even multi-millionaires, but the guy that lives next door, drives a 10 year old car, watches just about every penny they make or spend, and are really very frugal. These are 90% of all millionaires. They are not smarter than you, not luckier, weren't born into wealth, don't go to Starbucks every day, and you wouldn't notice them if they were standing right in front of you.