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Democrats Seek Relief From Obamacare Penalties
AP ^ | Feb. 16, 2015 | Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

Posted on 02/16/2015 7:14:31 AM PST by PROCON


WASHINGTON (AP) -- The official sign-up season for President Barack Obama's health care law may be over, but leading congressional Democrats say millions of Americans facing new tax penalties deserve a second chance.

Three senior House members told The Associated Press that they plan to strongly urge the administration to grant a special sign-up opportunity for uninsured taxpayers who will be facing fines under the law for the first time this year.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; aca; deathpanels; democrats; obamacare; zerocare
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To: PROCON

I don’t care what it was declared.
It’s NOT A TAX. IT’S A FINE.


21 posted on 02/16/2015 7:39:31 AM PST by BuffaloJack (When did the 2nd amendment suddenly require a license or permit for a gun?)
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To: PROCON

Watch the language used. This will be spun as the fault of mean rich people.


22 posted on 02/16/2015 7:39:44 AM PST by lacrew (5th)
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To: yldstrk
"...any Democrat that wants more time to sign on to obamacare is granted same."

I expect something more along the lines of anyone who is filing a tax return will pay a penalty surcharge to cover the fines of those who aren't.

23 posted on 02/16/2015 7:42:01 AM PST by Baynative (Did you ever notice that atheists don't dare sue Muslims?)
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To: PROCON

Pass a Law, then when it fails miserably start granting exemptions? What a country, just repeal the damned thing or remove ALL Exemptions immediately.


24 posted on 02/16/2015 7:42:33 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: PROCON

There is a backlash to all of this. It may have to play out over a number of years because it involves people seeing the results of the mindset that sees Government as God/Provider. But if I could snap my fingers and get my way, this process would end with an Amendment to the Constitution barring Government at any level from having any contact or interaction with the medical profession, with the exception of services provided to active duty/retired military or wounded veterans. They’ve earned the right to be cared for by the taxpayer.


25 posted on 02/16/2015 7:43:39 AM PST by Tonytitan
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To: PROCON

I’m so happy you posted this article!!!


26 posted on 02/16/2015 7:45:30 AM PST by SierraWasp (Help Stamp Out Pernicious Progressives and Arrogant Activists With Their Liberalism!!!)
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To: PROCON

They’ll try to figure out a way to “regulate” Obamacare so that conservatives pay and the ‘rat base consumes.


27 posted on 02/16/2015 7:45:31 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: BuffaloJack

It’s a punishment for not kowtowing to your betters.


28 posted on 02/16/2015 7:46:39 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: PROCON

Interesting... IIRC, this issue is one of the central points around why Obama and Reid shut down the government and blamed Ted Cruz back in 2013.

Aren’t the dems lucky Americans lack the cognition to remember these issues and their origins?


29 posted on 02/16/2015 7:48:04 AM PST by ScottinVA (Communism, liberalism and Islam: Kindred ideologies dedicated to America's destruction.)
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To: Tonytitan

I’m not sure you’re going to change a lot of minds.

The meme will “pivot” to -

“we had to implement it this way because the conservatives in the country wouldn’t have let it pass otherwise”.

Gruber stated as much. They HAD TO LIE about it because it wouldn’t have passed otherwise.


30 posted on 02/16/2015 7:48:04 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: PROCON

I have a feeling that low income folks who were “entitled” to some type of low income payment got the penalty subtracted.


31 posted on 02/16/2015 7:49:18 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: fwdude

“Let them rot in their own sewer. Enforce ALL OF IT!”

Exactly! I distinctly remember how the dems oh-so-haughtily reminded us.. “This is settled law.. Deal with it!”


32 posted on 02/16/2015 7:50:27 AM PST by ScottinVA (Communism, liberalism and Islam: Kindred ideologies dedicated to America's destruction.)
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To: MrB
McConnell and Boehner:

"Is there anything we can do to help with this?"

33 posted on 02/16/2015 7:50:42 AM PST by daler
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To: PROCON

It’s tax season and people are just now filing their 2014 tax forms. They are just now finding out what they really voted for. My sister-in-law and her husband had to pay nearly $300 and their daughter had to pay $90. They usually got a refund of several hundred dollars each year. They are pissed..............................


34 posted on 02/16/2015 7:54:45 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Nervous Tick
I’m totally opposed to any relaxation of penalties.

Not until middle America is bludgeoned full force by the evil of this bill (and this asshole) FOR WHICH far too many of its “victims” voted will we be able to mount the political force necessary to get rid of it.

"Uh oh! Some of those Freepers understand why we want to relax the penalties!"

"Relax, Barry! It's not like there are enough of them! Remember what Gruber said."


35 posted on 02/16/2015 7:55:42 AM PST by COBOL2Java ("God save America" - we are at the dawn of a new dark age)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Paying for the medical care comes after. I don't think the plans even planned to
pay for the care of payees. Obama did tell old people to just take a pill,
so, it's not like he didn't warn people.
36 posted on 02/16/2015 7:55:48 AM PST by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: PROCON

Hell NO!!! The DEMOCRATS voted for this piece of garbage .. they are stuck with it.


37 posted on 02/16/2015 7:56:11 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The hope and changey stuff did not work, even a smidgen.")
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To: MrB
“we had to implement it this way because the conservatives in the country wouldn’t have let it pass otherwise”.

Not a single Republican in either house voted for this monstrosity. They were in the minority and had no power to stop it at all.....................

38 posted on 02/16/2015 7:56:22 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: PROCON

Enjoy your crap sandwich, grubers...


39 posted on 02/16/2015 7:56:54 AM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: Nervous Tick

My concern is that the can is kicked far enough down the road that none of the original politicians who supported/passed this law pay for it at the ballot box; when you see how many of them are already out of office (and Obama himself will be soon), we’re going to end up with a bunch of Republocrats keeping it in effect while pointing fingers at a bunch of retired (exempt) politicians...


40 posted on 02/16/2015 7:58:33 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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