Posted on 11/06/2009 2:33:46 PM PST by MissesBush
From the House Ways and Means Republicans:
Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.
n response to the JCT letter, Camp said: “This is the ultimate example of the Democrats’ command-and-control style of governing – buy what we tell you or go to jail. It is outrageous and it should be stopped immediately.”
Key excerpts from the JCT letter appear below:
“H.R. 3962 provides that an individual (or a husband and wife in the case of a joint return) who does not, at any time during the taxable year, maintain acceptable health insurance coverage for himself or herself and each of his or her qualifying children is subject to an additional tax.” [page 1]
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“If the government determines that the taxpayer’s unpaid tax liability results from willful behavior, the following penalties could apply…” [page 2]
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“Criminal penalties
Prosecution is authorized under the Code for a variety of offenses. Depending on the level of the noncompliance, the following penalties could apply to an individual:
• Section 7203 – misdemeanor willful failure to pay is punishable by a fine of up to $25,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year.
• Section 7201 – felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to five years.” [page 3]
When confronted with this same issue during its consideration of a similar individual mandate tax, the Senate Finance Committee worked on a bipartisan basis to include language in its bill that shielded Americans from civil and criminal penalties. The Pelosi bill, however, contains no similar language protecting American citizens from civil and criminal tax penalties that could include a $250,000 fine and five years in jail.
“The Senate Finance Committee had the good sense to eliminate the extreme penalty of incarceration. Speaker Pelosi’s decision to leave in the jail time provision is a threat to every family who cannot afford the $15,000 premium her plan creates. Fortunately, Republicans have an alternative that will lower health insurance costs without raising taxes or cutting Medicare,” said Camp.
According to the Congressional Budget Office the lowest cost family non-group plan under the Speaker’s bill would cost $15,000 in 2016.
When in prison your health care is free .... I wonder how many more prisons will have to be built to hold all the protesting people ....???
Oh really?
At first I thought from the headline that congress critters would be thrown in jail.....oh, well.
I hope to have a jury of my peers (hint, hint) when I go to trial.
“Free, Gris!”
They’ll have to spend billions building debtors’ prisons.
Apart from all the constitutional implications and the fundamental immorality of this legislation . . . this is a lot of money for a family to carve out of its budget.
The Pelosidiot will be fleeing the country shortly after folks start being imprisoned.
Believe it.
How could any American vote for such a thing?
I will be paying my taxes in another country by then if this passes.
And there are millions of us who plan to do the same.
We won't be going to jail.
My wife and I have been discussing the same thing, and we’ve decided that if our country is no longer the America we recognize why not live somewhere else.
So, are all those illegals going to have to pay or be fined/thrown in jail?
NOT A CHANCE!!!
Only white Americans will be hit with this. And I do not like saying this. I mean since when have they done anything about identity theft? Or multiple DUI’s? The minority class gets away WITH MURDER. This is aimed at US. Period.
good, then they can jail us all, tax revenue will cease and they will go broke trying to feed us all (I call that the Reverse Cloward-Piven Strategy)
Why did we ever spend so much blood and treasure fighting the old Soviet Union, only to surrender to communism?
Basically correct, but conservative minorities will also be in the cross hairs.
The goal is to make us all criminals so they can pick and choose who to throw in jail based on political considerations. It’s marxism 101.
The millions of us who will do this will then act from a position of financial strength, not looking over our shoulders here and waiting for a knock on the door from a bunch of jack booted thugs.
That I fully agree with.
They will just disguise it as much as they can.
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