ok what type of business do you own.

you cant convince me otherwise, any business owner who gets a COST added to him will pass that cost on, because they have to. Its econ 101. This notion that you operate some business and you can do what others cant is just factually wrong. At some point when your SRAC meet up with your LRAC projections, you WILL have to make a choice. Are you really going to force me to break it down into apples and apples?

Your Cost =X
Your Revenue = Y
Your Profit=y-X=Z

IF, at some point your X=Y you will have no choice, BUT to cut something. benefits, labor, operations, etc.

Youre the business owner, you are the one that took the risk to open a business to employ people. YOU OWN those jobs, not the workers. If your cost rises, you will, at some point in the graph, be forced to make cuts. This is what is happening in Obamacare and you are claiming "oh they are circumventing the law"

LOL for someone who claims to be scientific, you should know this isnt even a debate. Years of economics back this up, i can post charts if you wish.

Im sure youll try to say something about how noble you are and you would refuse to pay your rent so someone can stay employed, but thats just not factually true. Your responsbility is to run your business as a profit, if you do that, job layoffs are not a problem. If your profit gets encroached upon, you make cuts in areas to absorb that cost or you raise prices or you do both.