Obama administration diverts $500M to IRS to implement healthcare reform law

The Hill ^ | 4-9-12 | Sam Baker

[STARWISE]

The Obama administration is quietly diverting roughly $500 million to the IRS to help implement the president’s healthcare law.

The money is only part of the IRS’s total implementation spending, and it is being provided outside the normal appropriations process. The tax agency is responsible for several key provisions of the new law, including the unpopular individual mandate.

Republican lawmakers have tried to cut off funding to implement the healthcare law, at least until after the Supreme Court decides whether to strike it down. That ruling is expected by June, and oral arguments last week indicated the justices might well overturn at least the individual mandate, if not the whole law.

“While President Obama and his Senate allies continue to spend more tax dollars implementing an unpopular and unworkable law that may very well be struck down as unconstitutional in a matter of months, I’ll continue to stand with the American people who want to repeal this law and replace it with something that will actually address the cost of healthcare,” said Rep. Denny Rehberg (R-Mont.), who chairs the House Appropriations subcommittee for healthcare and is in a closely contested Senate race this year.

The Obama administration has plowed ahead despite the legal and political challenges.

It has moved aggressively to get important policies in place. And, according to a review of budget documents and figures provided by congressional staff, the administration is also burning through implementation funding provided in the healthcare law.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks STARWISE.

[Karliner]

I may be real stupid because I cannot understand how a law can be 2,700 pages long and he's diverting 500 million of our own money to fight against those who do not understand nor even know of all the mandates, rules and regulations implemented in this all encompassing,"law."

I do not understand but this is what he wants. I only pray we can stop all of this( laws and taxes) before he destroys the last vestige of freedom, of liberty, of America. I only hope we can take back the country in a peaceful vote so we can roll back the evil already upon us.

[Cheerio]

The sad part is that nothing he does...most of it illegal or unconstitutional... and the GOP run House does virtually nothing to stop him.

Where is the contempt of Congress citation for Holder for Fast and Furious? How long must the American People WAIT for the GOP to take action. IMPEACH NOW. What Zero has done makes Richard Nixon's follies look like a day at the beach.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

It has moved aggressively to get important policies in place. And, according to a review of budget documents and figures provided by congressional staff, the administration is also burning through implementation funding provided in the healthcare law.

"It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money." – P.J. O’Rourke, Parliament of Whores

[chessplayer]

Looks like he’s already telling the SC what he will do if they rule against him.

[b4its2late]

Those 3 give the stooges a bad name.