Seriously this is what it comes down too? Stupid liberals you aren't hurting the corporation but the indi vidual franchisee. If you continue to boycott large corporations eventually you will have no one left to fund your welfare. Get a clue, then get a job!

Boycott Apple. Boycott Ford. Hell, just boycott every company that has anything that looks remotely like success. Maybe we can bring 'em down and kill all those people's jobs. Yeah, that's the ticket.

The people who will benefit most from universal healthcare are small businesses, contract employees, part-time employees and others who don't have an option to receive healthcare at work. It will also benefit those who are uninsurable. And, you'd be surprised how easy it is to be uninsurable if you are not part of a large company healthcare plan. Don't believe me? Pretend you don't have insurance and try to get some as an individual.

These business owners increasing prices to cover healthcare are making a political statement. It is not based in the reality of the situation, nor do they care about the reality. They are mad and have a platform to express their anger. No one would care if this was an individual pizza parlor. Since he's speaks for a national chain everyone is covering the story.

The US will became a nation of part time workers in the service industry. Thanks Liberals. Thanks for voting for Obama and I hope you all get the free bees he promised you. Pathetic! I have to go to work now so my taxes can fund the Link Card, Section 8 Housing, free cell phones and all the babies about to be born here in Il, I hope there is enough in my check left over so I can make my Blue Cross Blue Sheild family health care payment this month! It is hard being responsible for so many people I have never met.. I guess that means we are all one happy family. Gee it sounds easier to just sit at home and depend on all the hard working peeps in this state. Disgusting!!

I don't disagree that people should get off of their ass, and that welfare needs reform in a big way. But unless you are a business owner, your share of taxes is a drop in the bucket compared to what corporations and other entities contribute to the welfare system as a whole.

All PapaJohns needs to do is raise his prices by something like .4% to .7% to cover the increased costs of mandated healthcare without changing a thing (according to Forbes.com, take that source for what you will) - am I going to sweat having a Pizza raise in price from $20.00 to $20.08 - $20.14 per pie? No.

Suppose I got the decimals wrong (4% - 7%). And he had to raise the prices from $20 to $22-$23.50 to cover the gap. Am I going to run screaming? No. I'd still eat his pizza if I thought it was good.

Corporations have to live with the new reality. And congratulations on Papa John's for doing a Chick-Fila and turning politics into a promotional opportunity. Even if I disagree with the political statement, I recognize the savvy in the decision. But in the end, the cost of doing business is dealing with the factors out there. Mandatory healthcare just became one of them. If you can't adapt, then according to most conservative fiscal pundits you deserve to go out of business.

Don't assume we're a nation of lazy dumbasses when we're among the smartest people on the planet. If we can split the atom, I'm sure someone will find a way to keep pizza moving even under Obamacare.

I urge people to boycott Papa Johns. He can afford to pay Payton Manning a large salary for his commerical and then give away 2 milltion pizza's, but he can't afford to give his employees health care. Who does he thinks buys his pizza's. Certainly not the super rich. It's the common working family. So Papa John, cut your own throat!

@mom peole are always thinking the ones that arr complaining are not working and just get welfare. Well i work and go to school fulltime so that means im paying my taxes just like you are so you telling me, me and my family dont deserve healthcare

i don't eat papa john's sucky pizza.his philosophy was pro 1% and he waging war against 99%,let's boycott this looney company until they get sucked dry his bank account,ADIOS Papa John's!

Everyone be sure your health insurance premiums are paid if you dare to eat Papa John's. That's some nasty gooey pizza.

Honestly, does anyone really have a clue what the Affordable Healthcare Act is? The whole purpose is so that Americans have an opportunity to actually afford healthcare if they own their own business or want to start their own business, work somewhere that doesn't offer insurance, or lose their job and their insurance along with it. This isn't free healthcare. This isn't welfare. It's AFFORDABLE healthcare. Comments like 'get a job' basically tells me that most don't even know what the bill is. With the absolutely skyrocketing costs of health insurance these days, it will come as a God-send to millions of people. God forbid Papa John himself bites the bullet if the .7% increase from his own multi-million dollar salary. Better to take it from the minimum wage earning employees.

By the way, John Schnatter's net worth is $240 million. And as a side note, he gave quite a bit of that away to the Romney campaign. Apparently he can throw money away on politics, but not employee wages.

You know, one can whine about the future, like Papa Johns, Denny's, Applebee's. etc., or one can invest in the future, like Google . . .http://apnews.excite.com/article/20121115/DA2IHQ383.html Wonder which is more "patriotic."

Jon Stewart, "The Daily Show" also has a few words for all these whining CEOs. . . . http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stewart-tears-into-melodramatic-post-election-whining-about-obamas-second-term/

some nasty pizza

We lilve in a democracy. Everyone had the opportunity to cast a ballot for the person, or persons he or she wanted to lead the country. The democrats prevailed. It is useless to talk about your fellow citizens, YOUR president, and others just because your candidate lost. Even more so, I dare any of you to talk in public the way you do in this blog. You wouldn't. So stop the nasty talking points and prepare how you are going to deal with your life and the lives of your loved ones until the next election. And, remember, if you believe in God, then you know that He knows who your leaders are, and He is allowing them to serve. Trust God, and don't worry about Obama. That is the lesson we all need to learn.

Yes, lets defend the guy.
Lets applaud him when he cuts min wage earners hours and fires people... What a hero for taking a stance!!!!
I can't wait to pay 30 cents more for a pizza so those bastard illegal aliens won't have the health care I pay for. No way in hell are my taxes going to go to all of those millions and millions of women having babies just so they won't get off their asses and work!
Here's my .25 cents john... Now sleep easy my friend.

Yea Christy LYonn... I hope Obama hires you to find all of these people you are talking about.. And let me know which programs you are in favor of cutting and which ones you are not? I mean obviously "we" don't want to screw over that autistic kid... That would be un-christian like... But I do want to find those free loading illegal baby makers.
I can't wait til Saint Peter opens his books and sees those bastards that took advantage of in-state-tuition... I mean the nerve of them to get an an education, find a good job and not go on gov't welfare... Now that would be an awkward conversation.