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Posted on 04/20/2022 3:22:53 PM PDT by Signalman
Rhode Island Democrats want to punish the parents of children who refused to submit to the COVID vaccine mandates.
If passed, the bill will financially cripple individuals by doubling their personal income tax and requiring them to pay a monthly fine of $50.
State Senator Samuel Bell is the lead legislator backing the bill, which mandates all Rhode Island residents, workers, and taxpayers receive a COVID-19 vaccine as well as any subsequent boosters that the state’s director of the department of health shall require.
The bill’s text can be read here. (See link)
The law will apply to every person “of at least 16 years of age” as well as every person “under 16 years of age” and over 10 years of age.
In order to receive an exemption for a minor, an extremely strict requirement has been drafted into the bill. Parents will need to have three different doctors state on record that the child is “not fit for immunization” and the child themselves will have to place their signature on the form.
The state’s department of health will then be vested with the power to investigate each individual case and, without details provided as to how the determination might be made, may summarily reject the petition and reinstate monetary penalties on the minor’s guardians.
Employers, both public and private, will be tasked with enforcing the legislation as well. If an employee who is not strictly working remotely fails to provide proof of vaccine and his employer fails to terminate his employment, that employer will receive a monthly fine of $5,000 imposed on them.
Bell, who is personally motivated due to an ailing newborn son with a compromised immune system, was joined by Senators Mack, Acosta, Anderson, Seveney, and Mendes in introducing this bill.
To justify the legislation, Bell has pointed critics in the direction of a Boston Globe piece by journalist Dan McGowan that makes the claim that nearly 65% of residents support a statewide mandate. This number comes from a survey that was conducted by a ‘joint project’ known as the COVID-19 Consortium for Understanding the Public Police Preferences Across States.
Only a liberal would think of taxes as a punishment:
That is frankly illegal and Un-Constitutional. Each person/taxpayer must be taxed on the same basis. PERIOD. I could never understand how a sliding scale on income taxation is legal Federally, but on the State level? It is clearly a woke tax.
Sounds unconstitutional, like everything else they do. Why can’t they stop pushing people to murder children?
Beat them with their own medecine. Forced abortion for all Liberal parents. They will love the idea and vote it in immediately
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With that name alone I don't trust their numbers.
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This is wrong on so many levels. A perfect glimpse of libtard statism.
Oh this one is easy. It's a tax.
What the Nazis did to the Jews, Democrats will do to us.
Rhodent peninsula. So many Rats in such a small state. Give it to Masshole and be done with it.
Whoever presented this bill needs to be severely disciplined.
Whenever I read something like this I realize our country is one footstep away from TOTAL COMMUNISM.
Your point is well taken...🙁
Thinking about it more carefully, IMHO, in the politically rotten axis represented by MA, CT, NY, RI, NJ, DE, & MD, there might be, at best, only a 5-to-10 percent probability of getting an "honest" election...
Both of my friend’s kids who live in RI were “vaccinated” and got the Kung Flu TWICE.
Should they get tax credits then?
That state is a waste Left there 12 years ago Got tired of being a slave.
No.
My living room is bigger than road island.....
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