Posted on 11/10/2013 5:03:51 PM PST by T Ruth
I will be submitting a new W-4 form to my employer. At the end of next year I will not be owed a tax refund from the federal government. As a patriotic act of disobedience, I am proudly refusing to purchase any health insurance. This would mean that I will be subject to a fine of 1% of my total income (2% the following year, 2.5% thereafter). The awesome thing about that is unless you are due a tax refund, the government will never see a dime of that money.
My choice to not buy health insurance is a choice many people are going to make, either to protest, or once the ObamaCare website is properly up and running and they get a glimpse at the increased cost of the monthly premiums under the Affordable Care Act. During his radio show recently, Rush Limbaugh went into detail about all of this:
Anyway, [my accountant] said to me that, according to the law, the only way that the government can collect the fine or penalty for you not buying insurance is if you are owed a tax refund. If you do not owe a tax refund, they cannot go into your bank account or anywhere else and get that money. Now, the sad thing is that most people file their taxes to get a refund ’cause they think they’re screwing the government, and they’re not. …
Therefore, the only way that they can collect the penalty or the fine is by taking money from your refund. If you are not owed a refund, they cannot get money from you. They can’t issue a lien. They can’t garnish your wages. They can’t use any of the normal procedures available to them if you owe them money, even though the Supreme Court has said it’s a tax. So for those of us — I mean, folks, I’m in fat city. I’m in fat city because I always structure to where I owe money. Well, not entirely. There have been years. But if you structure your taxes so that you do not get a refund, you do not have to buy insurance and you do not have to pay a fine ’cause they can’t collect it from you if you don’t have a refund due.
And that is just another nail in the coffin of Obamacare imploding on itself.
Limbaugh also highlights that in order for ObamaCare to be successful, the program must coerce a few million young, healthy suckers into paying for something they don’t really need. All I need is a catastrophic plan in event the unimaginable happens. Unfortunately, Obama has banned affordable catastrophic plans and is utilizing the mandate as a way to force us into paying for services that we don’t all need like maternity, vision, dental, mental health, and drug and alcohol treatment.
As many as 20 million people could lose their current health insurance coverage because the coverage they are currently happy with has been outlawed under ObamaCare. These ObamaCare victims are certainly going to face higher premiums which they might not be able to buy, or just don’t believe are worth the potential of a 50% to 150% premium increase with a higher deductible.
Remember that you don’t have to pay a fine if you legally ensure that at the end of the tax year you are not owed a refund from the federal government.
Fight back!
I've been working on my Galt for a while now and should be fully out of the splash zone soon enough. I didn't make this mess. I didn't cheer on the ass hats who shoving the patriot act, homeland security, militarizing local police and all of the other in your face police state laws and programs over the past couple of decades. In fact, I was on the other side of all that cheerleading. I tried to warn people that doing those things was foolish. Got a lot of "why do you hate america?" around here for my effort. So you'll have to excuse me for feeling less than zero responsibility to clean up this mess.
And there isn't any "winning" this. The time for winning was over years ago while the GOP base and rank and file were drunk on power and wanted their security state at any cost. At this point, there is only degrees of losing. Don't bother coming back to me in 18 months. I'll be off grid by then.
Re read what I posted. I said they at least waited until the regime was weakened by the war.
Please think twice before you answer.
Since were talking assassinations, I see your Brutus and Cicero and raise an Boothe and an Oswald. How did things work out for them?
Just remember the government has the power to write the rules and do anything it likes. It can tax you, bankrupt you, jail you or kill you. It does not even matter if you are right, they are the government.
Thanks...I forgot that part of it
Because Obama has simply chosen to delay enforcement of the part of Obamacare that applies to employers, but not to individuals, I would think that any individual could mount a successful defense to buying insurance or paying a fine under the individual mandate on the grounds that the law, as applied, is “arbitrary and capricious”, the key legal standard under administrative law. Any lawyers out there agree?
So you say...
Good luck with that Galt path...I suppose you be out of the picture soon...
Just remember...No matter how off the grid you go...You’ll always have nieghbors...
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