It's not speculation. Unless you're purposely clueless, Obamacare WILL increase costs for those in business. The owners of Olive Garden/Red Lobster have also announced they are cutting back full-time workers to 30 hours/wk to keep them part-time in at least 4 markets in order to keep their costs aligned.

What some of you are completely missing is that the man in question has already made his pile. His only question is whether to stay in business and keep employing people -- which he'd prefer to do -- or enjoy the fruits of his prior labors by closing the business and retiring. No doubt some of his employees would find new jobs -- certainly at least some of the time-share resorts he's built will be purchased and continue to be run to service their clients and those resorts will need to employ people -- but he will be relieved of the headache of complying with Obamacare and all the myriad decisions and pressures that go with operating a business.

If you think he's a scumbag for trying to clue people in on what the prices and consequences of going for "free" stuff might be or for deciding what to do with what he has legally earned, then you're a class "A" -- make that class "O" -- idiot. He is under no obligation, legal or moral, to keep running his business just to provide other people a paycheck.

Here's a clue Ridge: most major businesses make long term decisions based on forward speculation. They HAVE to. It's called strategic thinking and planning. Failure to plan is why so many businesses fail or collapse and why people thought they could buy $400K houses with nothing down on a $60K salary during the late 90s and early 00s. In this case, he has strong evidence for his expectation that Obamacare will increase his costs for employment and doing business because it's there in the legislation in black-and-white.

There's no coercion on his part, he's educating his company to the facts. Hell, he's giving them a warning -- the same kind of warning that the Obama administration is bribing or strongarming Lockheed Martin to NOT give their employees before the election.