Posted on 05/17/2013 1:29:33 PM PDT by IbJensen
Over the past week, details have emerged on how the Internal Revenue Service subjected certain groups to undue scrutiny in a systematic manner over an extended period of time. It is deeply concerning that the same IRS that just admitted to the political profiling of Americans who oppose a big-government agenda is also tasked with enforcing the myriad mandates, taxes and regulations in Obamacare.
Americans have entrusted the IRS with a tremendous amount of power, and that power has been systematically abused over the course of months and years. While this fact is chilling enough for many of us, it's actually about to get much worse.
With the House poised to once again to vote to repeal the disastrous Obamacare law on Thursday, it's worthwhile to note that President Obama has approved giving this entity billions more in funding and thousands of new employees to take on even more extraordinary authority - enforcing Obamacare, overseeing the health care decisions of all Americans and, what's more, handling the private health insurance information that belongs to you and your family.
Do we really want the IRS policing our health care?
Based on conduct over the past few years, the agency already is helping to promote a big-government agenda by making extraordinarily invasive requests for information from particular small-government groups, and not treating left-leaning groups the same.
The momentum for repealing Obamacare ought to mount beginning with Thursday's vote, as the IRS issue is just one of a million reasons to get rid of this law. It's not just the IRS scandal that has cast doubt over the implementation of Obamacare. A scandal you may not have heard much about is that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been seeking more funds from private health care organizations to help drag the implementation of the law over the finish line. It's a task she and other bureaucrats have been struggling mightily with, as exhaustively predicted by conservatives before this law was ever passed.
The mayhem began with Health and Human Services' very first task as outlined in the law - simply to produce and release a list of the department's new powers and responsibilities. Apparently, this was such an insurmountable task that they had to settle for meagerly reproducing the table of contents from the bill.
Since then, there has been little else but more bad news: The feds were forced to dump a major provision with the repeal of the Class Act, a long-term insurance scheme that would become insolvent so quickly that huge majorities voted to get rid of it. Sen. Max Baucus, one of the primary authors of the law, has declared its implementation a potential "train wreck." Even some unions who supported the bill are now looking for an escape hatch, while the state-level health care exchanges are on track to be wildly over budget, and many employers have been forced to cut shifts for hourly workers to avoid the employee coverage mandates. Moreover, premiums are set to pop up by double digits in states all over the country.
At the head of this beast - if it manages not to collapse under its own bureaucratic weight - would be a disgraced organization that has already gotten the creation of burdensome red tape down to a science. Now it will be entrusted with our sensitive medical information. The IRS will be there enforcing the employer insurance mandate, the individual mandate, and 45 other provisions of the law. Those include everything from determining which small businesses are eligible for tax credits to levying fees on prescription-drug manufacturers to collecting unearned-income taxes for Medicare to enforcing a tanning-bed tax.
The current IRS scandal, possibly still in its infancy, is already useful as a cautionary tale about what happens when government control increases. That power often leads to corruption. Just as every new grant or benefit the government creates opens up a new opportunity for fraud and cronyism, every new task handed to these acronym agencies can be mismanaged or used for abusive ends. We must be ever mindful not to let these agencies accumulate more power than they absolutely need.
The IRS is one of many organizations that already have tremendous power within the federal government. We should not add M.D. to their names, too. It's time for Congress to repeal the law and get the IRS out of health care.
Now is the time to eliminate the corrupt and oppressive IRS and replace it with a flat tax thereby kicking these crumbs we've watched lying on television in the backside. Obama is in this scandal up to his lop-ears and needs to be tossed out on his ear along with the numbskull Biden and ALL the rest of the charcters in this portrait of evil!
The collection infrastructure is already in place, and tax revenues will increase because we won’t have to fund this massive bureaucracy, which consumes about 50% percent of what it collects. As far as a tax rate for ALL to pay I would suggest 8%.
THE point of nationalized healthcare is to deny access to political enemies.
What could possibly go wrong?
And people don’t think there will be death squads with Obamacommiecare? Are they kidding me? “What political party are you Mr. John Doe Citizen? Republican?...Oooh I’m sorry Mr. Citizen, that live saving operation you need will have to be denied!”
Bigger government means more goodness for everybody! /sarc
If the IRS becomes involved in health care, American freedom is done. It will be the first step toward total government control and the extinction of Constitutional rights. Anyone who believes IRS won’t eventually become a government policing agency like the Nazi SS or the Soviet KGB must still believe in the Tooth Fairy. The current IRS troubles will seem a small compared to what possibly lies ahead.
These knuckle-dragging apes despise the Tea Party, or ANY political opposition to the lop-earned muslim nitwit Obama.
We have to pinch ourselves to verify that we’re not living in a nightmare but wonder with great anxiety in what country are we living in?
It’s now criminal to oppose the government? And with the military issuing an edict that they are to handle any and all civil unrest, it has become clear as to why they have bought up all the ammunition. Leftists love protests, except when it’s them we’re protesting.
The Tea Party is vehemently opposed to more taxes and the ruling class in our central socialist government makes that insane?
What could possibly go wrong?
Repo Man (2010)
Sickening isn’t it?
Ok... So, what do we do about it?
This wasn’t passed in a legit manner. The SCOTUS upheld it under sketchy circumstances. The House has voted to repeal it although it will likely go nowhere in the Senate. Once that route is exhausted, and barring a once in a Century miracle, what is our recourse?
I have my own ideas, but everyone needs to think this through.
I think the IRS is finished on managing the health care side of this. I’d put more trust into the National Park Service, or the Arlington Cemetery folks managing this. Any idiot Senator who doesn’t agree....has ethics issues.
That and watching the government for at least 50 of my 59.5 years. I still shake my head when I think about LBJ, Carter, Clinton, and to varying lesser degrees, Nixon, and both Bushes. Reagan was good but never had a Congress to work with without too much compromise. GWB could have really gotten good things done but alas he was too RNC Establishment. By the time 0bama gets done only the second coming will fix it. I pray a lot, keep my eyes and ears open, and my powder dry. The collapse will be soon. I guess that is what it will take to fix it.
Let’s see how Harry Reid and the other Democrat Senators perform on thie matter — wait, you mentioned ethics issues, didn’t you. Never mind.
What was it that Godzillary Clinton screeched when the rats were out of power? Oh, yeah. It was “dissent is patriotic.”
Yep. Or was it, “At this point what difference does it make?”
The IRS has no business being involved in anybody’s healthcare. People’s health insurance has zero to do with revenue. One could conclude that the IRS was chosen only because of its power.
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