MSNBC: ‘Is It Even Legal’ For Restaurant to Add ObamaCare Surcharge?

‘Basically it is a tax’

Outraged MSNBCer: ‘Is It Even Legal’ For Restaurant to Add ObamaCare Surcharge? (NewsBusters)

You reap what you sow. Most MSNBC hosts have excitedly touted ObamaCare over the past four years, despite warnings that the law would increase costs for businesses. Well, now we are beginning to see the natural consequences of what the health care law is doing to businesses, and at least one MSNBC host is upset by it.

On Saturday’s Weekends with Alex Witt, Ms. Witt was incensed that Gator’s Dockside, a Florida restaurant chain, has started charging its customers a one percent surcharge to help cover expected ObamaCare-related costs. Witt fumed, “[I]s it even legal to just add on a surcharge like that? I mean, it’s essentially a tax.”

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