Ranting to /dev/null

Going to have to do better than that

A Federal judge has overturned a Maryland law specificially designed to target Wal-Mart. I may be in favor of finding some way of shfiting the burden of health care more onto the service industry than the public sector, but I'm not in favor of laws crafted to single out a given company. The way the law was written, only Wal-Mart would have met the criteria for penalties, and lawmakers knew this when they wrote it.

If you want to make retailers and other low-wage employers pay for health care, there are ways of doing that, but going after a single, successful company simply because they are successful strikes me as spiteful and mean-spirited. Not to mention illegal.