LOL...
Posted on 01/12/2013 11:45:03 AM PST by John Semmens
The Internal Revenue Service warned employers in a new regulatory edict that “scrupulous adherence to the rules will not be tolerated if the intent is merely to minimize costs.” The IRS issued the edict amidst reports that many business owners were limiting employee hours or hiring temps in order to avoid Obamacare’s health insurance mandates.
“While the law may say that only full time employees must be covered, the President’s intent is to see that everyone has health insurance,” the IRS wrote. “Replacing full-time employees with part-timers or outsourcing jobs to temp agencies as a means of lowering costs will not be allowed.”
The IRS promised to “make whatever statistical adjustments we deem necessary to thwart efforts to evade the President’s objective. Those wishing to challenge our rulings can take us to court.”
Taking the government to court over its Obamacare rulings may be financially risky. Hobby Lobby is facing daily fines in excess of one million dollars for each day if fails to comply with a ruling that it must provide coverage for birth control and abortions in the insurance it offers to its employees.
“The IRS doesn’t have the resources to closely monitor every action taken by every business or person subject to its authority,” complained Commissioner Steven Miller. “Fear of the potential consequences of noncompliance—whether that be financial ruin or imprisonment—is our first line of defense for protecting the government’s interests against recalcitrant and disobedient members of society.”
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I share the famous quote by Judge Learned Hand:
(1872-1961), Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals
Source: in the case of Gregory v. Helvering 69 F.2d 809, 810 (2d Cir. 1934), aff’d, 293 U.S. 465, 55 S.Ct. 266, 79 L.Ed. 596 (1935)
“Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury.
There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one’s taxes.
Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.
Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.”
Under O’Bummer’s tax rules, Al Gores sale of Current TV should be taxed in the 2013 higher rates!!!
These satirists are our first line of defense in terms of educating the stupid people regarding the crazy horrible things Obama is doing to us. God bless them!
“While the law may say that only full time employees must be covered, the President’s intent is to see that everyone has health insurance,” the IRS wrote. “Replacing full-time employees with part-timers or outsourcing jobs to temp agencies as a means of lowering costs will not be allowed.”
HA! Good luck! The govt can’t tell employers how to fill their manpower/employee needs. And, I don’t care what Obama’s “intent” was. Unless it was codified in law, it doesn’t mean squat.
Another excellent quote:
“A given result at the end of a straight path is not made a different result because reached by following a devious path.”
Minnesota Tea Co. v. Helvering, 302 U.S. 609 (1938).
Don’t know about the IRS.....but the rest isn’t satire.
Here we go! The public servants threatening Americans again. Ungood.
LOL...
re: “Unless it was codified in law, it doesn’t mean squat.”
In a country that adheres to the “rule of law”, you would be correct. But, we’ve left that shore decades ago. The only possibility one has today is if the judge you get is one of the few rarities who still believes we have a Constitution and must abide by it.
Other that that, it is a forgone conclusion that the IRS will win by pure intimidation, or, if one takes them to court, they will out-spend you in court - with sympathetic judges backing them up.
Yeah, its getting harder to find the humor in Obamacare - my insurance premiums are going up 26%.
Make whatever statistical adjustments we deem necessary to thwart efforts to evade the President’s objective.
A lot of that going around now days.
Following the law to contain costs will not be tolerated. I can’t decide if we are living in a Franz Kafka novel or a George Orwell one.
Drat you, John. You make it all seem so possible. You caught me, you little rascal.
Ditto.
So, this is supposed to be semi-satire???
So, this is supposed to be semi-satire???
Indeed
HA!
Nice one, John.
“Fear of the potential consequences of noncompliance—whether that be financial ruin or imprisonment—is our first line of defense for protecting the government’s interests against recalcitrant and disobedient members of society.”
Big Brother would be proud.
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