The Bishops are involved with far more than an individual insurance mandate. They oversee Hospitals and Charities -non profit employers that will not comply. They pay no taxes.
What will the administration do if the Bishops do not comply with the seizures? I doubt it will be as you suggest -nothing.
“What will the administration do if the Bishops do not comply with the seizures?”
What do you mean “...if the Bishops do not comply with the seizures?”?
Do you have any idea how this works?
If the Church doesn't receive relief - either judicial or legislative, and legislative doesn't look like that's going to happen - then the government will have a right to impose whatever penalties or fines are written into law. The best case would be if the government must actually sue various Catholic organizations and institutions to collect whatever fines, fees and penalties for which they ask. Less good would be an administrative hearing to impose these charges. Worst would be if the law is written to permit the IRS to just automatically impose a lien on bank accounts, etc., and then just execute a funds transfer.
But no matter what, the end result is the same (barring a court intervening) - the government will execute a seizure of funds from the institution's bank accounts, and that will be that!
Of course, that will get messy when the government seizes funds that were meant to: pay vendors; pay employees; pay contractors; pay the utilities, etc.
Then, if the deficit is sufficient, and there is not enough money forthcoming from other sources to cover it, the institution will be forced to close.
The primary purpose of the regime is not, at this time, to throw bishops in jail and arouse the populace against the regime. Rather, the regime is acting to destroy mediating civil institutions like Catholic schools, hospitals and other Catholic charitable entities. With Obamacare and the HHS mandate, if the bishops don't win in court and refuse to comply, the regime will be able to fulfill its current, intermediate goal of the destruction of Catholic civil organizations. But the bishops won't go to jail. It's tough to fight the execution of a federal government-imposed funds seizure.
Now, obviously, various Church entities have sued the regime in court over the HHS mandate, and they could actually win their cases. At least some of them. In which case, the Church will get a reprieve, and the bishops STILL won't go to jail, LOL.
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