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Under Obamacare, IRS Has Power to Penalize Americans Who Refuse to Buy Required Insurance
Associated Content (AC) ^ | March 20, 2010 | Marc Schenker

Posted on 03/20/2010 2:03:31 AM PDT by Suvroc10

In another indictment of Obamacare, a congressional report has found that the IRS will have the power to penalize, by means of fines, Americans who refuse to buy required, government insurance. This further, nauseating factor of Obamacare is actually merely a symptom of what the report by the House Ways and Means Committee is really saying: greatly expanded powers for the IRS to encroach upon the lives of average Americans. In the report titled "The Wrong Prescription: Democrats' Health Overhaul Dangerously Expands IRS Authority," other ills of Obamacare are outlined in ever more shocking detail. Some of these include the power of the IRS under Obamacare to: confiscate Americans' tax refunds as a doubly insulting complement to aforementioned penalties for not buying government-mandated insurance; the likelihood of IRS audits (always nice around this time of year) increasing; and the swelling of an already unpopular bureaucracy by increasing by nearly 17000 the number of IRS auditors and agents!

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TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Politics
KEYWORDS: americans; bendoveramerica; irs; obamacare; penalize; romney; romneycare; tax; taxes; thepowertopunish
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1 posted on 03/20/2010 2:03:31 AM PDT by Suvroc10
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To: Suvroc10

The IRS will be checking every single legal US citizen once a month to ensure compliance ...
Have a nice day,
Nancy P.


2 posted on 03/20/2010 2:11:33 AM PDT by PIF
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To: Suvroc10
It's astonishing how they can't check people to see if, you know, they're here illegally or not, but they're all ramped up to check citizens and steal more of their money.

I'd suggest that if one wants to see where Obama's true dedication is, look at his policies--protecting illegals vs. penalizing and insulting Americans; stepping on or ignoring good allies while kissing up to terrorist religions--but these days that makes one a hater.

3 posted on 03/20/2010 2:16:24 AM PDT by Darkwolf377 (Conservative Bostonian, atheist pro-lifer, soon be gone)
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To: Suvroc10

I’ll die or go to prison before I allow this to be a part of my life. Damn Obama and all those that support him.


4 posted on 03/20/2010 2:20:50 AM PDT by Brytani (Will someone PLEASE give Obama a Monica so we can impeach him?)
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To: Brytani

The question is how much will it take before adults will say enough is enough and arrest these domestic terrorists who have committed crimes against the United States of America and from within.


5 posted on 03/20/2010 2:28:43 AM PDT by A. Morgan (ZER0 is a BIG LIAR!)
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To: Suvroc10

But, Hey, obamalama just “created 17,000 new jobs!”. His legacy is spared.


6 posted on 03/20/2010 2:33:46 AM PDT by Artie
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To: STARWISE; maggief; Liz; onyx; SE Mom; Bahbah; penelopesire

OH boy!


7 posted on 03/20/2010 2:36:24 AM PDT by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: A. Morgan

I hope we are there - if not, I’m on my own.


8 posted on 03/20/2010 2:49:22 AM PDT by Brytani (Will someone PLEASE give Obama a Monica so we can impeach him?)
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To: Suvroc10

Wow, another feature just like here in Massachusetts under the Californian’s Romneycare.

( or is he just a carpetbagger from Utah, New Hampshire, Michigan....?)


9 posted on 03/20/2010 2:52:41 AM PDT by Leisler
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To: Suvroc10

And remember, thru this you will not be going thru regular court but thru “tax courts” which apparently operate differently. Wonder if those that don’t buy insuancce that are able to will lose their right to vote, you know being a criminal and all.


10 posted on 03/20/2010 2:57:31 AM PDT by feedback doctor (Tyrants fear freedom loving people with guns. And well they should!)
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To: Artie

and it only cost $940 Billion to create 17,000 jobs. That’s what; $50 Million per job?


11 posted on 03/20/2010 3:01:29 AM PDT by Bernard (One if by Land, Two if by Sea, Three if by Government)
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To: Suvroc10

You will see I predict an “underground economy” emerging in which folks will be paid in cash.


12 posted on 03/20/2010 4:01:16 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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To: Bernard

You know, it astonishes me. One of the reasons Obama is pushing this is because he needs to find a way to pay back the horrible deficit. The reason we have the deficit is because the government stole our money and used it for purposes for which it was not intended. Now, they are going to fine us with this health care nonsense to pay back what they stole in the first place. Instead of them going to jail for their crimes, we will be fined and more money stolen. Given Congress’s past record, not only will we be fined for a non-functional new program, but this money will also be diverted to another cause, which will put us further into debt and will eventually cause our enslavement and overthrow. This is the the America I know. We seem to have disappeared.

I am amazed, but I don’t suppose that I should be.


13 posted on 03/20/2010 4:01:37 AM PDT by freepertoo
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To: feedback doctor

I thought that with Obama being in office, criminals have been given the right to vote? Nothing would surprise me.


14 posted on 03/20/2010 4:02:54 AM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!=^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^==^..^=)
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To: Suvroc10

Our own government is waring against its own people. the servant is now the boss. Funny, you can’t ask an illegal his status if he is pulled over by police, he has rights you know, but our elected government can subject it’s citizens to harassment, threats, fines and imprisonment if they don’t comply with thier requests. Thier poking the tiger in the cage, the question is ....is it on purpose?


15 posted on 03/20/2010 4:05:05 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (cockblock the sock puppet in 2010)
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To: PIF
"Violence isn't only the answer, violence is the only answer."

J. Stack

16 posted on 03/20/2010 4:18:02 AM PDT by grobdriver (Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism - No Fascism - Nobama - No Way!)
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To: grobdriver

When the last man willing to die for his cause, is dead, the war is over — Spengler.


17 posted on 03/20/2010 4:22:20 AM PDT by PIF
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To: PIF
That's the way of war.

Fortunately Liberals are pussies to a man.

Their women may take a little effort...

18 posted on 03/20/2010 4:26:43 AM PDT by grobdriver (Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism - No Fascism - Nobama - No Way!)
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To: grobdriver

“Fortunately Liberals are pussies to a man.

Their women may take a little effort...”

Don’t be so overconfident - we were and we lost.


19 posted on 03/20/2010 4:30:08 AM PDT by PIF
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To: Suvroc10
OUTRAGEOUS!!!!!
PROOF THAT OBAMACARE/ROMNEYCARE IS A PROVEN FINANCIAL FAILURE

======================================================
======================================================

Mass. State Treasurer Timothy P. Cahill (I): RomneyCARE
is bankrupting Massachusetts and will do the same nationally.


"Romney admitted ... that about half of the real costs of "extending
coverage to the uninsured... is covered by federal tax dollars.



Mr. Romney's RomneyCARE is doing what entitlements do: crowding
out private insurers, compounding the cost explosion, walking the state toward rationing.


From CATO (the whole article is worthwhile): "Of the 133,000 people who have signed up for insurance since the plan was
implemented, slightly more than half have received totally free coverage."


"Health Care Speechwriter for Edwards, Obama & Clinton Now Without Health Insurance"
I'm a critic because what Washington is talking about doing
has made health insurance unaffordable in Massachusetts.



"Small businesses bridle at health insurance hikes (Romneycare strangles Mass. businesses)
some really bad news from Blue Cross-Blue Shield: His company's health insurance rates are going up 47 percent in January."


" Rationing medicine has already begun
… government-
run health care has introduced rationing and waiting lists and cost the lives of the people under its provisions."


"DEATH PANELS OPEN FOR BUSINESS IN MASSACHUSETTS"


"President Obama's newly confirmed regulatory czar defended the
possibility of removing organs from terminally ill patients without their permission."


"You can't reap these savings without limiting patients' choices in some way," said Paul Levy, CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess."


"State plan may place limits on patients' hospital options( Mass. RomneyCare )"


"Romney Visits Nebraska, Talks Health Care [where he defends Romneycare] "


"Paying the Health Tax in Massachusetts [Romneycare]
Unless we ponied up for a pricier policy we
neither need nor want-or enrolled in a government-sponsored insurance plan-we
would have to pay $1,000 each year to the state.
How did we become outlaws?"


The Massachusetts debacle, coming soon to your neighborhood."
The state's overall costs on health programs have increased by 42% (!) since 2006."


A Very Sick Health Plan; Bay State's 'Grand Experiment' Fails [RomneyCare]


Health care in Massachusetts: a warning for America [Romney brings Mass. to its knees]
The Bay State's mandatory insurance law is raising costs, limiting access, and lowering care. "


"'Severe' doc shortage seen hiking wait time
"The shortage is getting more severe""


"Health costs to rise again.( RomneyCare )
The state's major health insurers plan to raise premiums by about 10 percent next year"


"Nation's ill-advised to follow Mass. plan [Health plan a failure]
September 17, 2009 The canary is dead."


"Bay State Insurance Premiums Highest in Country - Boston Globe August 22, 2009"


"Massachusetts: the laboratory for ObamaCare"


"Massachusetts' Obama-like reforms increase health costs, wait times [RomneyCare]
Premiums are growing 21 to 46 percent faster than the national average"


"Mass. Pushes Rationing to Control Universal Healthcare Costs (RomneyCare)"


"1,000 cancer patients 'refused treatment'"


"Massachusetts Universal Healthcare System Breaking Down Already"


"Hospital patients 'left in agony'"


"Mr. Romney should have known better before signing on to this not-so-grand experiment, especially since the state's "free market" reforms that he boasts about have proven to be irrelevant when not fictional.
Only 21,000 people have used the "connector" that was supposed to link individuals to private insurers."


A Very Sick Health Plan; Bay State's 'Grand Experiment' Fails [RomneyCare]
Even though the Bay State commenced its program with a far smaller percentage of uninsured residents than exists nationwide,
"RomneyCare" is threatening to bankrupt the state."


"Dem Congresswoman Admits Obama Health Care Plan Will Destroy Private Health Insurance Industry"


"Romney's mistreatments a sick man,"


Where is RINO Romney
as the Dems push through ObamaCARE?

Answer: The RINO coward is hiding, sending out his saboteurs
against Gov. Palin and all conservative GOP stars again,
selling his ghostwritten book, helping Gore push the fraud of climate change,
and attacking the "tea party".
20 posted on 03/20/2010 4:35:10 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." --Thomas Jefferson)
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