Posted on 03/23/2010 7:41:56 PM PDT by Libloather
IRS will police health care
Lindsay Landry / KETK News
March 23, 2010 - 5:51pm
TYLER - The Internal Revenue Service will be the government's chief enforcer for health care reform. They'll be responsible for watching both business and individuals to make sure they have the insurance coverage the government requires. But the questions is, will the IRS really be able to enforce this?
According to the new bill, the purpose of the mandates is to regulate economic and financial decisions about how and when health care is paid for, and when health insurance is bought. But many worry if the IRS is up for the challenge.
In 2014, every person and most businesses will be required to certify on their tax returns if they have bought the level of insurance they're required to have. If not, then that person or business will have to pay a separate tax to the IRS. For individuals it could be up to $750 a person or $2,250 a household. And for a business, $750 per uncovered employee.
To make this work, the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the IRS will need $10 billion in additional funds, funds which were not made available under the health reform bill.
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Some believe this will be tough to enforce because of how complicated the bill is.
"They're going to have to beer the branch up in order to enforce it," Peter Milne of Healy, Milne & Associates. "It will actually be cheaper to pay the fines than it will be to pay the premiums."
(Excerpt) Read more at ketknbc.com ...
They are going to need a lot more than 17,000 additional agents to enforce this...
This is why I use a wet sponge to do envelopes...
Jack-Booted Thug Ping...
I borrowed you pic to show my family,you should add a multi-passenger lane on the far left - it would be so funny if it was not true
“I hardly see any Obama bumper stickers anymore”
I still a lot of them in Houston. In most cases, the drivers appear to be Obama’s “natural constituents”.
Dang it I can’t remember where I read it (on FR no doubt), but I hope someone here will remember what I’m talking about...
Along with the hiring of 16,000 new IRS agents I remember someone saying there was an “order” for 20,000 shotguns. I don’t remember what thread, but there were citations from the bill.
Should have kept reading!!! That’s what I just mentioned, although I couldn’t remember where! 20,000 guns was the number I heard. Didn’t know about the DoE though — WTH??? Why in the heck would the DoE need shotguns unless they are going to forcibly withdraw children to force them into schools (i.e. come after homeschoolers).
I just googled it and found a cached copy of a story that has since been removed on a local news station. Here is the URL for the Google Cache (Copy & paste this into the address button and remove any spaces because it would have screwed up the formatting on the page if I didn’t put in a break)
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qXCTy_O1tDEJ:www.abc6onyourside.com/shared/newsroom/top_stories/videos
/wsyx_vid_3214.shtml+Ill+from+Census+Letter+Glue&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
How in the heck did I get the number 20,000 guns? Wow — going to have to correct myself when I talk to the receptionist at the doctor’s office tomorrow (yep, she loves tea almost as much as I do! LOL)
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