Forgot to add....BOR asked the question about 5 times!
never ask your weiner a simple question...you’ll never get a straight answer
Bet my BP went up over 150
Weiner compared having to pay a fine for not buying healh insurance to having to pay a fine for littering. ...and O’Reily let that slide (or he didn’t hear it during the chaotic exhange).
I watched that.He would not tell who would come after the people who refuse to pay for obama care.Dodged the question 5 times,then complained Bill would not let him answer the question.
The big question is why he would not tell who would come after the people.
Isn’t it the IRS? I thought I just heard they were adding 18,000 employee’s. Or was that a future expansion?
O’Reilly kept asking him what government agency would fine someone who refused to buy health insurance. Weiner kept saying, “We’re not going to criminalize it”.
It was good, pathetic.
Did O’Reilly ask that little Weiner why the congress
men are exempt from this POS plan if it is so great? This issue should be used to confront these bastards at every turn. It is the hight of arrogance for them to shove this plan down the throats of all Americans, and then turn around and exempt themselves from having to participate! What a bunch of crap!
Bookmarking, hoping for video of this.
The answer is that the penalty for not having insurance is administered through the tax return.
Weiner’s statement that the government is not criminalizing failure to pay the penalty and the government will not come after someone for not paying it is grossly misleading.
As I understand it, there is language in ObamaCare saying the government cannot obtain a lien on your house and denies them certain other remedies to enforce the penalty.
But that provision is really a smokescreen.
The government will already have your money through withholding taxes and estimated tax payments. THAT is how they plan to enforce it. If you truthfully state on your tax return that you have no insurance and you do not include the penalty in computing your return, the government will deduct it from your withholding or estimated tax payments, and reduce your refund. If you owe tax, it will be added to the amount you owe and failure to pay will accrue further penalties and interest.
I believe the reason the liberals didn’t explicitly criminalize this particular provision is that they didn’t need to. The tax code already has enforcement provisions, and it wasn’t necessary to add anything to enforcement the ObamaCare penalty.
For example, if someone lies on their return and says they have insurance but they don’t, there are already laws on the books about lying on your return and the remedies therefore.
And monetary amounts are fungible - purporting to isolate one line item on the tax return and apply different enforcement remedies to that item from the other items on the return would be impracticable in any event.
This exchange was embarrasing. Wiener was really acting like a child.