Posted on 06/03/2013 9:41:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The cheapest Obamacare health insurance plan will cost a family $20,000 per year.
Americans will be forced to purchase the plan or face the Obama IRS.
CNS News reported:
In a final regulation issued Wednesday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assumed that under Obamacare the cheapest health insurance plan available in 2016 for a family will cost $20,000 for the year.
Under Obamacare, Americans will be required to buy health insurance or pay a penalty to the IRS.
The IRSs assumption that the cheapest plan for a family will cost $20,000 per year is found in examples the IRS gives to help people understand how to calculate the penalty they will need to pay the government if they do not buy a mandated health plan.
The examples point to families of four and families of five, both of which the IRS expects in its assumptions to pay a minimum of $20,000 per year for a bronze plan.
The annual national average bronze plan premium for a family of 5 (2 adults, 3 children) is $20,000, the regulation says.
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Two-Thirds of Americans Dont Know If They Will Insure Under Obamacare
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Taxation without representation! We should start a tea party. nevermind.
That doesn't answer the fundamental "why" of how this happened. WHY did communism get a foothold in the children of the "Greatest Generation?" WHY did God's commandments get trampled?
Isn’t the @$$hole-in-chief already sticking it to us?
Every single democrat senator and every single democrat congressman voted to make this Obamacare the law. Every single Republican in Congress voted against this Obamacare. But no one sees that the democrat party is the enemy of the American people. The democrats also completely control the media.
I don’t know if you are familiar with the prophecy of Fatima, but Our Lady predicted this, the spread of communism from Russia.
Not trying to make this into a religious discussion, but she did predict this in the early 1900’s.
Communist took over every aspect of society, the press, the schools, many businesses, courts. I think there is a document called the Communist Manifesto and it outlines their agenda. It’s chilling because most if not all of it has come true.
Got bullets?
Sorry, my grammar was really bad in that last post. I did not check it.
My bad.
This will never happen. Next year is an election year and the Corruptocrats will be annihilated should the punishment of voters by ObamaCare kick in. It will be delayed at least one year, more if Hillary sees the presidency slipping from her grasping talons in ‘16..
What is the root of this infection?
This nation has turned from God. Here’s the remedy for the infection,,,
2 CHRONICLES 7:14:
14 Then if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land.
Someone please answer this very important question:
Is the “tax” that made ObamaCare constitutional (as Chief Justice Roberts defined it) an income tax, or just a tax?
If it’s the latter, it may be that Chief Justice Roberts decision indicates he is a very sly fellow indeed and not the traitor he’s been portrayed as.
Charles Darwins Theory of Evolution (often referred to as The Theory of Survival of the Fittest) describes the positive effects resulting from any pressure on an animal species that removes the least fit among the species and allows only the most fit of the species to reproduce. Most of us are well aware of this Survival of the Fittest theory, but few are aware that Darwin also makes mention of the negative effects resulting from unlimited reproduction of a species least fit when the weak, the lazy, and the stupid are left unchecked.
We like to think otherwise, but our species, Homo sapiens, isnt that long out of the trees and the same laws of nature that affect all of Gods creatures apply equally to us. If we were to observe any other species that had been allowed to reproduce without limitations, we would know immediately what the consequences will be.
Whenever the weak; lazy; and stupid of a species is allowed to reproduce unimpeded by predators that feed off the weak; lazy; and stupid, they soon outnumber the strong, productive, and intelligent. When the weak/lazy/stupid dominate the gene pool, the entire population becomes weak/ lazy/stupid, and then the population collapses.
In the past, when these collapses occurred within human populations, they have been referred to as a Malthusian Collapse. Thomas Malthus, a Nineteenth Century Economist, thought these collapses were caused simply because past civilizations had reached a point where human populations could no longer produce sufficient food supplies to feed themselves, but he never pinned down the exact reason for these food shortages.
We now think these collapses of past human civilizations have occurred whenever the unproductive weak/lazy/stupid greatly outnumber the strong/productive/intelligent of the population. In other words, the majority of the population becomes too lazy to perform the work necessary to provide for themselves and whats left of the strong/productive/intelligent refuses to continue to do it for them.
These collapses have occurred at frequent intervals throughout human history, and Western Civilization is, in my humble opinion, currently on the cusp of one of these collapses.
Communism and the removal of God and His holy commandments.
That doesn’t answer the fundamental “why” of how this happened. WHY did communism get a foothold in the children of the “Greatest Generation?” WHY did God’s commandments get trampled?
I’m writing from the protestant Christian viewpoint, diamond6 might have some thoughts from the Catholic perspective.
The (protestant) church in the late 1800s, early 1900s became weak and corrupted. It split into the “liberal social justice” camp - who basically rejected scripture for the most part- influenced by the German “higher critical” movement, and the fundamentalists who became mostly interested in evangelism, saving souls, but pulled out of the institutions of society, their salt lost it’s “saltiness” and they “hid their light under a bushel”. They decided that areas like education, politics and journalism were too “dirty” to bother with, and just focused salvation and the afterlife. We are supposed to be “discipling all NATIONS”, not just evangelising individuals. (Both are important and shouldn’t neglect either responsibility.)
The biggest effect was that the true, fundamental Christians pulled out of universities, colleges and schools. (We NEVER should have given schools over from church control to government control). John Dewey was a big Fabian socialist and his influence on the public schools was enormous. The liberal social justice Christians still had a lot of influence and were very involved in these “pillars” of society, and became the “useful idiots” in handing over the reins to the socialists.
The teaching universities - (that set the agenda for what public school teachers would learn) became very communistic/socialistic. So now you can hardly even find private school teachers who can think clearly about what liberty really means, what a free country is, what are really rights and what are “wants”... etc. because they were raised in public schools and went to public universities. So we’ve had several generations now, and that kind of thinking is almost lost.
At the same time, the socialists were working very hard to morally corrupt our society, because as the family fabric tears and disintegrates, then the government steps in to be “Dad”. Children are not taught morality and reponsibility in the home - they are handed over to government schools to be socialized.
This has been Satan’s agenda since the beginning of time, but as long as Christian churches are strong and people are truly God fearing and believe and OBEY scripture, then it doesn’t matter what kind of corrupting influence is “out there” - it wont take effect. Unfortunately, the churches and pastors are weak and they have been weak for a long, long time - so people are vulnerable to any false teaching.
Read the book of Jude in the scripture - written 2000 years ago but it could have been written this morning.
That’s why I keep pounding the drum that if we ever get free again, whether it’s thru financial collapse and chaos, secession, or a civil war, one of the first things that any new free society needs to put in their social compact or new constitution is to OUTLAW government schools althogether. Force parents to be reponsible for private schooling/homeschooling/internet schooling their kids - or at the very most allow small communities to create a charter for just their community to go in together to create a school, but only if everyone commits unanimously at the beginning as to what will be taught. And make it illegal, written in the constitution, for any “government” to have any sayso at all in what schools teach. Give that responsibility for a child’s education back to the parents and families.
Unions
Well, I guess you got exact polar opposite reasons for the “why” of our country of idiots between DJ Taylor and myself. I would submit for your thought though, that socialism, communism and either liberal Christianity, enlightenment thinking and atheism tend to go along together. The only time there has ever been a long lasting stable free society, is when that society was made up of majority God fearing Christians. The contrast between the French Revolution and our American revolution was just one of many examples to compare and contrast.
Malthusian thinking was one of the grounding principles of Naziism, so I would certainly not go there and say we need to believe in Malthusianism to correct our society’s problems. Malthusianism would promote letting the weak and defenseless die off, whereas traditional Christianity would defend them, while educating our children in Christian principles from scripture.
Well, as I said, you received two polar opposite opinions. But I would say, whatever you think is the root of our problems will inspire you toward very, very different paths of correction.
Apparently this is the law as of now-
“Starting in 2014, most people will have to have insurance or pay a “penalty deducted from your taxable income”. For individuals, penalty starts at $95 a year, or up to 1% of income, whichever is greater, and rise to $695, or 2.5% of income, by 2016.
For families the tax will be $2,085 or 2.5% percent of household income, whichever is greater. The requirement can be waived for several reasons, including financial hardship or religious beliefs. If the tax would exceed 8% of your income you are exempt, also some religious groups are exempt. That tax cannot exceed the cost of a “bronze plan” bought on the exchange.
While some states, including Alabama, Wyoming and Montana, have passed laws to block the requirement to carry health insurance, those provisions do not override federal law.
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http://obamacarefacts.com/obamacare-taxes.php
Also it’s important to note that even if one does elect to pay the fine, one will still not have insurance, thus it is essentially money being paid for nothing, much like all other taxes.
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