Posted on 01/31/2015 3:59:48 AM PST by Libloather
It will develop in coordination with the upcoming election schedule; Dems actually have a freer hand to deal with it now that so many ObamaCare supporters are out of office anyway and Obama isn’t running for re-election. New Dem candidates can safely distance themselves from our new “tax”...
The scheme is very atomizing, every man or woman for him/herself in what is a community foolishness.
It is also my understanding that if you don’t pay back the subsidies...they won’t do anything to you anyway.
They just wait until you die and comeback against the estate and the children to take restitution.
Sooo...lie to get a big subsidy and you will be rewarded.
Until this article I haven't heard of any total forgiveness on paying back excessive subsidies. There is some minor forgiveness built into law, but not what this article suggests. If you take subsidies and go over 400% FPL, you have to pay it all back. Let's say there 2 different couples aged 60 that buy insurance on the same exchange. One couple decides to take the advanced subsidy, while the other couple decided to wait. Both couples end up the year at 410% FPL. The couple that took the advanced subsidy will likely have to payback close to $8K+. I can't see the IRS giving $8K to one couple and denying $8K to people that have identical financial situations.
They FORCE people to take it, then they propose to FORCE people to give some of it back.
It all sounds like a set-up for government persecution (of some not others on whims).
No wonder they are backing down. The political backlash would be enormous at a time when they can’t afford it (2016 just around the corner).
What a huge FU.
They have shown a willingness to do that in the past. If the problem turns out to be big enough, I am sure they will make something up. By the time it is settled by courts, they will be long gone..
Follow your “ moral compass “ my lad ! I DO ! !!!
Snoot ;o)
>>How the hell am I supposed to know what laws I can and can’t break?
Symptom of a dictatorship. If laws are only enforced against political enemies, then essentially there are no laws. The politically connected can do as they please and the rest of us can be fined or jailed at the whim of those in power.
Absolute tyranny.
Meanwhile, those of us who didn’t get health insurance in time last year because Obamacare kicked us off our plan and complicated the process of getting on another plan have to pay a fine.
This is a revenue decision—foregoing revenue owed to the government. Isn’t that the province of Congress?
This is exactly like the USSR was at all times!!!
Welcome to the USSA!!! (Owned by Demonicrats)
Oh! And just like rural Californians are plagued with by Metro-Sexual rulers in the Blue Voting, crime ridden coastal metropolis dwellers!!!
Just a little editorial addition.
Good call re that addition! Excellent!!!
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