It's ba-ack! Health-care plan redoubles 'marriage penalty'

WND ^ | 2/10/09 | Bob Unruh

[hope]

Bills pending in Congress that would nationalize health care by setting up mandatory insurance purchases and fines for not complying could penalize married couples $10,000 annually and are a direct attack on marriage, families and the church because of their discriminatory provisions, according to a congressional candidate. "This is as awful, I will say evil ... this is as evil as it gets," Allen Quist, who is running to unseat Democrat Tim Walz in Minnesota's 1st congressional district, told WND.

[I am Richard Brandon]

It begs for an Equal Protection challenge.

[proudtobeanamerican1]

What, do we have to divorce in the name of the state and continue to live together?

[HiTech RedNeck]

It’s donkey doo-doo all the way down.

[grey_whiskers]

Thanks HiTech.

You inspired a new tagline, if you want it.

The Obama Administration -- It's Post-Turtles all the way down.

Cheers!

[sten]

sounds great.

my personal favorite is the ‘affordability credits’.

if you make enough, ie: >$150k for a single guy, you’ll be paying 6.1% taxes (or about $9,150/yr)... AND they will determine the amount of ‘affordability’ credits you will receive if/when you go to the doctors.

and since your income is in the top bracket... you’ll receive no credits... and will pay like 90% of the bill.

schweet!

[Cindy]

Thank you for the ping Grey Whiskers.

[Cindy]

ON THE INTERNET:

http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/wm2767.cfm

[Cindy]

http://www.heritage.org/Research/HealthCare/wm2767.cfm

January 20, 2010
“The New Federal Wedding Tax: How Obamacare Would Dramatically Penalize Marriage”
by Robert Rector
WebMemo #2767

SNIPPET: “One bizarre feature of the Senate-passed health care bill is its pervasive bias against marriage. Under the bill, couples would face massive financial penalties if they marry or remain married. Conversely, couples who cohabit without marriage are given highly preferential financial treatment. If the Senate bill becomes law, saying “I do” would cost some couples over $10,000 per year.[1]

Most people feel that marriage is a healthful institution that society should encourage and strengthen. Inexplicably, the Senate health care bill takes the opposite approach. At nearly all age and income levels, the bill profoundly discriminates against married couples, providing far less support to a husband and wife than to a cohabiting couple with the same income. If the bill is enacted, married couples across America will be taxed to provide discriminatory benefits to couples who cohabit, divorce, or never marry.

Analyzing Anti-Marriage Discrimination in the Senate Health Care Bill

The Senate bill is designed to provide health care benefits that are substantially more generous for lower-income persons. The bill’s anti-marriage penalties occur because of the income counting and benefit structure rules of the bill. If a two-earner couple is married, the bill counts their income jointly; since the joint income will be higher, a married couple’s health care subsidies would be lower.[2]

By contrast, if a couple cohabits rather than marrying, the bill counts each partner’s income separately. Separate counting means that, all else being equal, cohabiters would be treated as having lower incomes and therefore receive disproportionately greater government benefits. The bottom line: under the bill, a cohabiting couple would receive substantially higher health care subsidies than a married couple even when the total incomes of both couples are identical.”

[Boucheau]

The communists must destroy the family and faith.

Oh, I forgot, they don’t exist anymore. Oops! Silly me.

As you were, comrades.

[mojitojoe]

Fine away you bastards. They can fine, but they can’t make millions pay. Piss off.

[Talisker]

"This is as awful, I will say evil ... this is as evil as it gets," Allen Quist, who is running to unseat Democrat Tim Walz in Minnesota's 1st congressional district, told WND.

It's farcically evil, as a matter of fact. Seems the self-demonization of the Dems needs to be over the top before it's enough...

[Girlene]

Quist said the new health-care provisions restore the penalty and double it. He said all he needed to figure that out was his knowledge of how government works – he's been a state representative for multiple terms – and a calculator. Under the two proposals pending, which are similar, two unmarried people with a combined income of about $59,000 would pay about $1,320 a year in medical insurance.

For a married couple with the same approximate income, the tab would be about $12,000.

That's a lot of money to say, "I do".

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

if you make enough, ie: >$150k for a single guy, you’ll be paying 6.1% taxes (or about $9,150/yr)... AND they will determine the amount of ‘affordability’ credits you will receive if/when you go to the doctors.