I.R.S. Bars Employers From Dumping Workers Into Health Exchanges [Obama acts illegally - again]

New York Times ^ | May 25, 2015 | Robert Pear

[grundle]

WASHINGTON — Many employers had thought they could shift health costs to the government by sending their employees to a health insurance exchange with a tax-free contribution of cash to help pay premiums, but the Obama administration has squelched the idea in a new ruling. Such arrangements do not satisfy the health care law, the administration said, and employers may be subject to a tax penalty of $100 a day — or $36,500 a year — for each employee who goes into the individual marketplace.

[grundle]

There is nothing in Obamacare that gives Obama or the IRS the power to prohibit employers from dumping employees onto Obamacare exchanges, or for fining them $100 a day for doing so. Obama's actions here are illegal.

[Secret Agent Man]

he wants revolt.

[Blood of Tyrants]

What does Obama care about the law. He is king!

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

he wants revolt.

Well, he is a revolting fellow.

PING!

[goodnesswins]

This will pi## off large employers...will be interesting to watch this

[Jonty30]

That’s the point. The more mobile employers will just seek friendlier climes and they won’t be back.

[Menehune56]

This was the whole reason for Obamacare. Uh oh.

[GOPJ]

Are democrats just making it up as they go along? Have we come to that?

[Lazamataz]

If I'm a company, I sent a trite little two-word note to both the IRS, and the White House.

At some point you simply have to say, "ENOUGH."

[Graewoulf]

Do you suppose that House Speaker John Boehner is unaware the these illegal changes to an existing Federal came directly from the White House?

A direct line of evidence to the White House was all Boehner needed to form a House Special Committee on Benghazi, and so another r House Special Committee should be formed on Obamacare.

[Mark17]

Obama's actions here are illegal.

Each breath he takes is illegal, but he still does it, and he gets away with it. He will get away with this too. The Pubbies will never hold him accountable. He has pigment protection. I wish I could be more positive, but I can't.

[RightGeek]

[PubliusMM]

We are no longer citizens. We are subjects.

[umgud]

You have to keep reading this to know what’s in it.

[Graewoulf]

Is it Racist to have a Black Dictator?

[Cheerio]

Little boy king barry can get away with anything as long as the opposition is headed up by the likes of a boner and a cantor. America is finished as the country I grew up in.

[kabar]

When employers provide coverage, their contributions, averaging more than $5,000 a year per employee, are not counted as taxable income to workers. But the Internal Revenue Service said employers could not meet their obligations under the health care law by simply reimbursing employees for some or all of their premium costs.

Christopher E. Condeluci, a former tax and benefits counsel to the Senate Finance Committee, said the ruling was significant because it made clear that “an employee cannot use tax-free contributions from an employer to purchase an insurance policy sold in the individual health insurance market, inside or outside an exchange.”

If an employer wants to help employees buy insurance on their own, Mr. Condeluci said, it can give them higher pay, in the form of taxable wages. But in such cases, he said, the employer and the employee would owe payroll taxes on those wages, and the change could be viewed by workers as reducing a valuable benefit.

[skinkinthegrass]

no..he'd have get out of the liquor bottle first.

[Rusty0604]

In addition to this new ruling, those greedy businesses need to pay a minimum wage of $15 per hour and give women paid time off for their monthly cycle.

[Chode]

heh he, heh heh heh suckers...