I think the main premise is absolutely correct, and has been apparent for some time.
They want the tax refunds, AND the Earned Income Tax Credit funds. It was a huge pot of money just sitting there ripe for the plucking, and they have now plucked it.
What they ultimately want is to control the revenue stream of 1/6 of the economy. With a single payer system the premiums for healthchare will be paid to the federal government.
So if you think the social security lockbox was sacred, wait till they get their hands on the revenues from healhtcare.
And once that money is spent they will force Americans to pay vene higher taxes or premiums (or receive less benefits) with the threat of witholding healthcare from the nation’s citizens.
It is critically important that the facts about penalties for non-insurance, how they will increase year-by-year and how they will be enforced by the IRS are made known to the general public, especially the young. (That means that just running commercials on network TV won’t do it!) I have heard far too many young people say that they are just going to skip the expensive insurance and pay the penalty, as if this won’t be a big deal in a few years.
Note that the first time anyone has to have their tax-preparer fill out those new health-insurance lines on the 1040 forms will be after the 2014 elections.
Remember how they laughed at Rush Limbaugh when he suggested we need to start taxing the carp out of the poor? It took an Obastard to make it happen.
I say good about the EITC. That’s a scam welfare program anyways.