Well, we’re going to have to agree to disagree. You believe that the Obamacare Mandate is enforced by “penalties” and therefore they cannot be forcefully collected. You believe that because the legislative language actually says that. You believe that we are living in a rational America now.
I believe that we are, in essence, living (hopefully only temporarily) in a “bizarro-America” where our supreme court says the Obamacare Mandate is enforced by a tax and not by a penalty. Like I said, we’ll have to see what the IRS does (in 2015) to folks who somehow “refuse” to pay the mandate tax as part of their 2014 tax returns. You think the legislation precludes the IRS from going after them and that the IRS will therefore not go after them; I think otherwise since we’re living in bizarro-America (until Obama is out of office and replaced by a conservative Republican) and the IRS will ignore that part of the law since they now claim the financial sanction applied to folks who ignore the Obamacare mandate is NOT a penalty, it’s a tax.
Feel free to have the last word. I’ll not reply to it. I’ll simply wait until 2015 to see how this shakes out. Since Obama and his IRS ignore or misinterpret any law they disagree with I think I know which way it will go.
I don't have to believe in this case. I can read.
‘(2) SPECIAL RULES- Notwithstanding any other provision of law—
‘(A) WAIVER OF CRIMINAL PENALTIES- In the case of any failure by a taxpayer to timely pay any penalty imposed by this section, such taxpayer shall not be subject to any criminal prosecution or penalty with respect to such failure.
(B) LIMITATIONS ON LIENS AND LEVIES- The Secretary shall not—
‘(i) file notice of lien with respect to any property of a taxpayer by reason of any failure to pay the penalty imposed by this section, or
‘(ii) levy on any such property with respect to such failure.’.
What the Obama-care law text REALLY says on IRS enforcement of the personal Mandate fine/tax