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For months liberals lambasted Hobby Lobby as an evil, employee-crushing company for refusing to cow to liberal demands and fund certain types of contraception as required by the Affordable Care Act.
One important detail about how the company treats its employees was commonly omitted.
Full-time employees at the arts and crafts chain earn $14 an hour; part-time workers earn $9.50, both figures well above the mandated federal minimum wage, according to UFP News.
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Given that the minimum wage is a hot button topic for the left, one might expect them to honor companies that already pay it, holding them out as examples for the rest of the nation to follow.
But that’s not going to happen any time soon, because that’s not how liberals operate.
Hobby Lobby is a Christian-owned company that has refused, and will continue to refuse, to bow to the will of the state.
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Conservatives recognize this as being in keeping with the finest traditions of American liberty; liberals see it as a threat.
It’s also a successful company. Hobby Lobby has opened 30 new stores in the past year, adding 1,000 good-paying jobs to the U.S. economy, despite — not because of — government regulation.
Perhaps more importantly, Hobby Lobby is doing the right thing without a government mandate.
They are demonstrating that corporations do not need government regulation to pay their employees better.
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As a result, government can take no credit for any improvement in the standard of living of Hobby Lobby employees — liberals can’t have that.
The left believes that corporate America is evil and does not care about its workers. Hobby Lobby denying contraceptive coverage to its employees — although, in reality it covers 16 types of contraception — fits that narrative, so that is the story the American mainstream media covers.
Anything that makes Hobby Lobby look like it’s run by caring Christians, not so much.
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