Obamacare: Buy insurance or go to jail!

Politico.com ^ | 09/24/2009 | Politico.com

[The Magical Mischief Tour]

Ensign receives handwritten confirmation This doesn't happen often enough.

Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staft Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance.

Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty, Barthold wrote on JCT letterhead. He signed it "Sincerely, Thomas A. Barthold."

The note was a follow-up to Ensign's questioning at the markup.

[lapsus calami]

 

 

I can just imagine the cell-block conversations that would ensue:

 

Inmate #1: "What are ya in for?"

 

Inmate #2: "Failure to buy health insurance."

 

Are they freaking kidding me?????!!!!

 

At the rate of insanity those idiots are going in D.C. the next election is going to be about who to hang from what lamp post.

 

 

[mombyprofession]

Go to jail where you will get 3 square meals a day, an entire gym full of weights, cable TV and full medical, dental & vision.

[mombyprofession]

ping

[abishai]

Somebody quotes it every now and then, a quote from Atlas Shrugged, where the government makes such insane laws that even the most innocent trying to make a living suddenly become criminals.

[hattend]

I think we need a 2nd revolution!

This'll do it.

[DTogo]

Come and take me!

Indeed, when the Govt. comes knocking to haul people away, all bets will be off and R2/CW2 begins.

[Nevermore]

I don’t think we have a government “of the people, by the people and for the people” anymore Toto.

You just don't understand the language.
"The people" means "the government", so that's really just redundant.
(You're so full of racist deceit that you probably even refer to dictionaries for the definition of words. You obviously need to be re-educated in the Newspeak of BO's America.)

Now, can't we all just get along...with Obama?

[glock rocks]

Those Progressives keep pushing us back, don't they? I though they wanted us to live a 1930's lifestyle, but now it looks like the 1800's are where we should be.

... and that's only a short jump back to 1776...

[ntmxx]

“…2nd revolution…”

I starting to believe that the 2nd revolution occurred in the take over of America during the ’08 election; currently they are just the mop-up phase. For everything being done is with the approval of Congress and the many divisions of Government and “Friends of Government.’

[stockpirate]

It’s about freedom

[Marty62]

So hardworking Americans are NOW going to be locked up in prisons with rapists and murderers. Or will there be a SPECIAL jail for us?

[gitmogrunt]

I can't afford insurance, but I can afford a new Bass boat, Four wheeler, and Big Screen TV, thank you in Advance for Paying for my Healthcare,Food stamps,Mortgage and new Clunker, my Fellow Americans.(sarcastic-facetious post)

[Bobalu]

[FlingWingFlyer]

I’m still trying to figure out what the meaning of the word, “is”, is. But I’m trying.

[Sparko]

“There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

— Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged,

[Soothesayer9]

I would like to see those numbnuts try it.

[Publius]

“We want them broken. We’re after power and we mean it. There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws...now, that’s the system, Mr. Rearden, that’s the game...”

[Marty62]

We have 13 months until the next election. This going to be a VERY dangerous YEAR.

[a fool in paradise]

Sing Obama’s praises in lyrical song with school children or go to jail.

[george76]

I asked, “well what is going to happen to those people we can’t reeducate, that are diehard capitalists?” and the reply was that they’d have to be eliminated.

And when I pursued this further, they estimated they would have to eliminate 25 million people in these reeducation centers.

And when I say “eliminate,” I mean “kill.”

Twenty-five million people.

I want you to imagine sitting in a room with 25 people, most of which have graduate degrees, from Columbia and other well-known educational centers, and hear them figuring out the logistics for the elimination of 25 million people.

And they were dead serious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWMIwziGrAQ