Posted on 08/02/2013 1:11:54 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
House Republicans cast a win-win-win vote to go home on Friday — a single bill linking taxes, the IRS and the unpopular Obamacare.
Cuing up the exit music as they leave Washington for what’s likely to be an acrimonious August recess, the House voted 232-185 for a bill that would bar the IRS from any role in carrying out the law or in collecting taxes to help pay for it. Like most of the other 39 House votes against Obamacare, it’s largely symbolic as it won’t make it through the Senate.
The National Republican Congressional Committee will hammer home the tax-IRS-health law triple play message in August television ads. The theme is that the tax agency under fire for improperly targeting conservative political groups shouldn’t have any role in administering the health law. The NRCC also rolled out a new line of green T-shirts that say: “Hey IRS, hands off! My healthcare.”
“The IRS will have access to the American peoples’ protected health care information,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said Friday morning. “Given that this same agency has illegally disclosed protected taxpayer information, the privacy concerns raised by many are legitimate. This is nothing short of a big government overreach into the most personal aspect of our lives.”
The vote was the finale of a series of measures targeting the scandal-plagued IRS. It’s also part of Speaker John Boehner’s stated strategy of trying to attack the health law’s most vulnerable pieces this summer and fall while picking up a smattering of Democrats in the process. On this vote, only four Democrats — Rep. Mike McIntyre of North Carolina, Jim Matheson of Utah, John Barrow of Georgia and Collin Peterson of Minnesota — crossed party lines.
Boehner has outlined this as an alternative to risking a government shutdown over Obamacare...
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
The people in this country need to show up at IRS offices with tar, feathers and rope.
No, they’re aren’t any “good people” at the agency. They are all complicit with the tyranny.
Where’s the vote to abolish the IRS?
But how if there are no funds passed for it.
That is why congress should defund obumbler care itself.
Just more bs to try to get them more votes in the next election.
It’s quite simple really - Boehner doesn’t defund it because HE DOESN’T WANT TO
WORTHLESS they are just WORTHLESS
and Boehner is the most WORTHLESS of all
Boehner is helping the rats destroy the economy
Well stated and yours is a point worth noting. Thank You.
I wish people would stop saying Defund it. IT IS REPEAL it. Some later liberal POTUS could reinstate it if the law is still on the books. Defunding only delays, not rids’ us of this monster. Make congress live under it too.
Of course, repealing Obamacare is the ideal solution. But with the current political alignment in the House (GOP control), Senate ('Rat control), and White House (Obama), real repeal seems very unlikely, unless large numbers of 'Rats change their minds about it under pressure from their constituent groups, like big unions.
Defunding is constitutionally workable, since the House by itself can refuse to pass any spending bill allowing for Obamacare funding. If they do that and stick to their guns in budget negotiations with the Senate, it's possible that enough Senate 'rats will go along with the defunding, especially those up for re-election next year in states where it is unpopular. When and if such an agreement is reached, the administration will be legally barred from any further implementation spending until another spending bill is passed in Congress.
As for Congress living under it, they won't have to if implementation is defunded.
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=155
It says at this link: “ The President does not need to propose legislative changes for those parts of the budget that are governed by permanent law if he feels none are necessary. Nearly all of the federal tax code is set in permanent law, and will not expire. Similarly, more than one-half of federal spending — including the three largest entitlement programs (Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security) — is also permanently enacted. Interest paid on the national debt is also paid automatically, with no need for specific legislation.”
How do I know if 0bamacare is “permanent law”, which I assume is “non-discretionary”?
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