Businesses: $700,000 Fine for Not Complying With Vax Mandate
Analysis by Dr. Joseph Mercola
October 19, 2021
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STORY AT-A-GLANCE
> Buried in the massive $3.5 trillion “reconciliation” bill are unconstitutional fines for employers who don’t mandate COVID-19 jabs or regular COVID-19 testing of their employees > Fines on employers could run as high as $70,000 for serious infractions and $700,000 for each “willful” or repeated violation The unconstitutional fines as a mechanism for vaccine enforcement would bankrupt all but the largest businesses > Calling the vaccine mandate for businesses “tyrannical,” the No Taxation Without Congressional Consent Act, introduced September 30, 2021, would prohibit the federal government from imposing a fine, fee or tax on individuals or businesses for violating a COVID-19 vaccine mandate > Buried in the massive $3.5 trillion "reconciliation" bill is an unconstitutional vaccine enforcement mechanism that threatens to bankrupt businesses unless they force their employees to get a COVID-19 injection. If the measure is enacted into law, even employers that respect their employees' rights to health freedom and informed consent would be left with an impossible decision — mandate COVID-19 jabs or essentially go out of business due to unbearable fines.
The White House announced in September 2021 that companies with 100 or more employees would have to ensure staff have gotten a COVID-19 injection or were tested regularly for COVID-19. The Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is to be in charge of enforcing the rule, which will affect more than 80 million U.S. workers.1
In order to carry out this draconian measure, OSHA plans to use an Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) — a drastic measure used to accelerate new orders that has only been attempted 10 times in the agency's 50-year history. OSHA would also be able to enforce fines of up to $13,600 per violation of the rules — but the new measure tucked into the reconciliation bill raises the fines for noncompliance astronomically.
Before we get any further, it should be noted that the mandate doesn’t actually exist yet, in that it hasn’t been sent to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for approval, and it’s not yet a legally enforceable mandate. Still, by announcing it as though it’s an inevitable rule, it may have the same effect of triggering workers to get vaccinated — or allowing companies to enact mandates under the veil of the government “mandate.”2
$700,000 Fines for Businesses That Don't Force Injections
On page 168 of the 2,465-page bill3 is wording that should send an authoritarian chill down the back of anyone who believes in health freedom. It outlines fines for employers that "willfully," "repeatedly" or seriously violate the labor law, including by not requiring COVID-19 jabs or regular COVID-19 testing. As Forbes reported:4
"The increased fines on employers could run as high as $70,000 for serious infractions, and $700,000 for willful or repeated violations — almost three-quarters of a million dollars for each fine. If enacted into law, vax enforcement could bankrupt non-compliant companies even more quickly than the $14,000 OSHA fine anticipated under Biden's announced mandate."
In case you missed it, that $700,000 fine is for each violation, meaning it would bankrupt all but the very largest corporations if they don't fully comply with COVID-19 jab mandates or take on the cost of weekly COVID-19 testing of their employees.
Currently, the fines only apply to businesses with 100 or more employees, but there's nothing stopping them from changing it to 50 employees — or one employee. Anything could happen at this point. Some, such as Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, have called on businesses to "openly rebel" against the OSHA rule. But as Forbes put it:5
"It's one thing to defy a $14,000 fine. It's quite another to risk incurring hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines. One or two disgruntled employees, for example, could bring an employer $70,000-$140,000 in OSHA fines. If considered 'willful,' as per Rep. Roy's tweet — just three 'violations' could quickly become a $2.1 million OSHA fine."
The Mandate Doesn’t Actually Exist
As mentioned, the mandate that President Biden announced is currently a “mirage.”6 Speaking with The Federalist, a spokeswoman for the Indiana Occupational Safety and Health Administration explained, “There is nothing there yet that gives employers any mandate. The president made an announcement on this asking OSHA to do it, but we’ve not yet seen anything come from it yet.”7
An ETS may take six months to go into effect even after the mandate is put in the Federal Register — which hasn’t happened yet. OSHA’s COVID- 19 Healthcare ETS also makes no mention of vaccine mandates at this time.8 ETS rules are also often overturned in court. In the last five decades, courts have challenged six of the 10 ETS standards that have been suggested, with five of the six getting overturned.9
However, using the ETS for the “mandate,” the Federalist pointed out, “allows the Biden administration to push its demands faster and without any public input or requirement of responding to public input, which is normally required of even legally laughable federal rule making like this one would be.”10
This may be why more lawsuits haven’t been filed to challenge the mandate — there’s nothing to challenge just yet. It’s also worth mentioning that less than 2% of U.S. businesses will be affected by the mandate, as more than 98% of U.S. businesses have fewer than 100 employees, exempting them from the mandate. Still, those 2% account for about two-thirds of U.S. employees, so they’re a sizeable minority.11
Many of these large corporations have already put injection mandates into place or were planning to. The “mandate” announcement allows these mega-corporations to mandate the jabs without having to be the bad guy.
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We are all waiting for the undecided, unrepresented, unhappy people who have sat on the sidelines to get political and put an end to this. When they start getting involved, it will be time to start the live fire portion of a political correctness movement.
This country is on a fast track to a civil war, and these buffoons who think they can walk all over the people who make this country work are about to get a life lesson in what American Exceptionalism really means. We’ll put up with a lot of stupid shit, EXCEPT, when it begins to erode our prosperity and liberty to where we are no better off than the third worlders they are flying all over the country.
When the massive die off happens, and it is coming, only the unvaccinated are going to be able to remember what America Was before Covid.
"Call Me Ishmael" -Ishmael, A character from the book "Moby Dick" 1851. "Call Me Fishmeal" -Osama Bin Laden, A character created by the CIA, and the world's Hide And Seek Champion 2001-2011. -Tommythemadartist
Considering all the power and control the Federal Government has, is it even possible to have a violent revolution?
Good question, DW. What do you think? I've thought about that a lot. One person with a gun is a kook. 500 grannies and a few Trump supporters seems to have the "leader of the free world" damned near on its knees and calling it an "insurrection".
What would it take to tip the scales? 500 anti-vax cops in Chiganistan?
Pulling back a little bit, it only took the threat of losing her job, that killed my nurse friend. She got the ClotShot, now she's dead. I told her that I'd cover her bills until she got back on her feet. Her big-shot real estate mogul certainly should have. People are people.
She was too much like me. Didn't want to be beholden to anybody. I can certainly appreciate that, but I don't need money, I need physical labor. I pay more than the new $15 minimum wage, but if folks don't want to work, thanks to Bidet, they won't.
You think I'm going to turn over my keys to some fucker from Afgookistan?
My body is failing due to an accident (not my fault) about ten years ago. I have about four bailiwicks, in descending order: Peterbilt mechanic, house fixer, American and Japanese car wrench, active psychological warfare specialist (Retired).
I had to call my neighbor's wife to put in a call to the city to fix the blinking street light out front. Somewhere along the line line, the FWPD has figured out that I'm a cold-blooded killer. Granted, I shot a guy in 2008 that was trying to kill me, but it didn't take too long for the genius detectives to figure out what really transpired (I never talked to anyone but my criminal lawyer). That only cost me about $100k.
Not to sound like a broken record, who do you shoot, or what do you do to 'fight the man?'
I've been incarcerated several times, never more than twelve hours, except the time a gal thought she was going to corral my estate (it's modest, less than $2mil) called the cops and said I was committing suicide. They put me in Park Center looney bin for 48 or or 72 hours (the offending chicky-poo was locked out of MY house).
Dammit, that was the best time I had since I was a punk kid. Great buffet, great company (only a couple of them were kooky), I had a private hotel room for a day until they put some young fella in the other bed.
Asked him what he was there for, God love him, he said he was a drunk and wanted to dry out for a couple days on O'boingo's time and get some good chow.
I was so mad when the shrinks couldn't find anything wrong with me and kicked me out. I've been a lot of places in the world, but that buffet was the best I've ever had. Probably the 2nd best room.
Eh, it is what it is. I suppose I could use my O'boingoCare and have a vacation. Maybe when the weather gets really crappy...
The light that burns twice as bright, burns half as long. - Dr. Eldon Tyrell
Godfrey Smith: Mike, I wouldn't worry. Prosperity is just around the corner. Mike Flaherty: Yeah, it's been there a long time. I wish I knew which corner. My Man Godfrey (1936)