Posted on 05/28/2013 12:56:28 PM PDT by opentalk
Thanks to ubiquitous if imperfectly honest press coverage, most Americans know about the IRS scandal involving tax-exempt applications from various Tea Party groups. The public is still, however, getting the mushroom treatment on two other outrages by that rogue agency. The media have devoted scant coverage to its theft of 60 million medical records, now the subject of a class action lawsuit, and they have been all but silent regarding the illegal IRS scheme to fund Obamacare’s federal insurance exchanges.
As scary as is the medical record theft..... the more important of these two additional scandals involves IRS skullduggery relating to the exchanges. A year ago, the IRS finalized a regulatory ruling to the effect that it will issue tax credits through Obamacare’s federal insurance exchanges. Why is that such a big deal? Well, the IRS has been granted no legal authority, by the Affordable Care Act (PPACA) or any other act of Congress, to issue such credits. In fact, the ruling flouts the explicit language of Obamacare.
PPACA stipulates that all such assistance must emanate from state-run exchanges. Even if the federal government sets up an exchange in a state that has declined to do so, it wouldn’t be authorized to issue tax credits. And because 27 states have refused to set up exchanges, this restriction will cripple Obamacare. Without the ability to dole out tax credits and subsidies in more than half of the states, the Beltway bureaucrats attempting to implement the much-despised “reform” law will be hamstrung.
The IRS is attempting to save Obamacare by unilaterally declaring that it will issue tax credits through all exchanges, federal and state alike.
… “The IRS seized the authority to spend about $800 billion over 10 years on benefits that were not authorized by Congress.”
(Excerpt) Read more at m.spectator.org ...
It's an outrage.
At *any* cost.
… ” In other words, the IRS has arrogated “the power of the purse,” a right reserved to Congress by the Constitution.
This is obviously an unprecedented and dangerous power grab....
The business about the funding of the exchanges makes MEGO. I’m sure there are many more like me.
Check out this link. Many Freepers probably remember it.
Proudly… REALLY BUSH’S FAULT!!
From the archived web page image…
Expect More.gov was an initiative of the George W. Bush administration. This website has been archived and is posted here as an historical resource. It has not been updated since the end of 2008 and links to many external websites and some internal pages will not work.
So much for Hussein transparency! This Expect More site graded All Federal Programs by department. All Thousands of them. Can’t have troublemakers verify that at least half of decades-old programs got failing grades! AND WE STILL HAVE MOST OF THEM!!
Perhaps one of our patriotic White House Correspondents can ask Hussein the simple question...
WHY WAS THE WHITE HOUSE "EXPECT MORE" WEB SITE REMOVED IN LATE 2008?
Simple.
Because they can.
And they've been getting away with it.
Unconstitutional? Probably. Any hope od someone with standing to challenge it?
Probably not.
Total corruption and self interest rule DC and all its subdivisions; from the top, down.
… It will come as no surprise that this illegal expansion of Obamacare involved at least one of the IRS officials at the center of the Tea Party scandal. According to United Liberty’s Brian Gilmore, the regulation has short-lived Commissioner Steven Miller’s “fingerprints all over it.”
Thanks opentalk.
Save? Is that why they stole over 10 million Americans medical records?
a reporter should simply ask Obama why the IRS is implementing unlegislated rules, using this as a case in point:
Mr. Obama, will you prevent the IRS from issuing federal tax obamacare credits in states in which there are no state-run obamacare health insurance exchanges, without any legislative authority to do so under the obamacare act or any other federal act? and if you will, when will you do so?
Congress is too lazy to lay out the details of their legislation.
Ah... We get to the heart of the matter...
Remember Obama on a screed about "loopholes"? Their are none, their are however, Reductions to AGI, Deductions and Credits.
So while Obama was on a screed about Loopholes, the IRS without Congressional Authority, is out divining credits for his peeps...
Beam me up Scotty, Tax Code Hypocrisy alert in full force here.....
it is breathtaking to go from a government which at least paid lip service to the constitution, to a government that evidently has no compunction about flouting ordinary federal law in less than five years...
:-(
Obamacare...backdoor funding, bypasses congress
It's an outrage.
Not only is it an outrage, but it's also unconstitutional imo. More specifically, the Founiding States made the very first numbered clauses in the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide them from federal lawmakers, to clarify that all federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress. So Congress has a constitutional monopoly on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not.
And by establishing so-called "independent regulatory federal agencies," not only is Congress is wrongly delegating federal legislative powers to unelected government officials in defiance of the constitutional statutes referenced above, but consider the following.
Given the limited powers delegated to Congress by the Founding States, Congress is arguably establishing constitutonally undefined federal agencies as a smoke-and-mirrors way to establish new powers for itself by wrongly ignoring its Article V requirement to petition the states to ratify amendments to the Constitution which would grant Congress specific new powers.
Sadly, the reason that Congress gets away with ignoring its constitutionally limited powers is the following imo. Patriots are evidently not making sure that their children are being taught the Constitution and its history, as the Founding States intended for it to be understood, in the nation's schools. So Constitution-impaired voters consequently elect lawmakers to Congress who are either corrupt, or are as constitutionally clueless as the voters are.
Are we having fun yet?
Thanks for the article. Glad to see someone’s talking about PPACA changing the way IRS deals with businesses. Many people don’t know that the IRS will also be sharing data about their household income with the businesses that employ them. The potential for abuse, given what we already know about the IRS targeting and leaking based on politics, is enormous. It boggles my mind that none of the conservatives in the public spotlight are calling attention to this aspect of the law.
Don’t worry, John “Step’n’fetchit” Boehner will get right on this.
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