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> This is misleading right-wing B.S.

LOL. No. I campaigned for Barack Obama and met him in 2008. That's how 'right wing' I am.

> Anyone reading this on HN, if they eventually do employ 20 people, probably would want to offer them health insurance by that time.

That's a benevolent attitude, but practically, it will drive your business bankrupt if you are paying the CA-rate health care costs. That's the single biggest reason why even big corps like Wells Fargo, Charles Schwab and Bank of America are relocating many of their employees to Arizona and Colorado and elsewhere.

Obama is a New Democrat who lean right-wing ("conservative") on fiscal/economic issues.[1]

> CA-rate health care costs [are] the single biggest reason why even big corps like Wells Fargo, Charles Schwab and Bank of America are relocating

Source?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Democrats

What makes it right or left wing bs? Can't it just be an incorrect statement? It could just be me, but I didn't detect any political undertones to the parent comment.

Misrepresenting the taxation level and/or financial solvency of California is a regular right-wing trope, targeting the general attitude that governments should provide social services.

But they should be the ones to decide, right?