Never Again
Posted on 11/06/2009 4:04:23 PM PST by Typical_Whitey
Today, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.
In response to the JCT letter, Camp said: “This is the ultimate example of the Democrats’ command-and-control style of governing – buy what we tell you or go to jail. It is outrageous and it should be stopped immediately.”
Key excerpts from the JCT letter appear below:
“H.R. 3962 provides that an individual (or a husband and wife in the case of a joint return) who does not, at any time during the taxable year, maintain acceptable health insurance coverage for himself or herself and each of his or her qualifying children is subject to an additional tax.” [page 1]
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“If the government determines that the taxpayer’s unpaid tax liability results from willful behavior, the following penalties could apply…” [page 2]
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“Criminal penalties
(Excerpt) Read more at republicans.waysandmeans.house.gov ...
I would rather troll for alligators.
Not only will I NOT take part of their rotten health plan, they will lose my revenue and I’ll stop filing and paying my taxes all together.
They can kiss my lily white behind.
To throw individual Americans into prisons for disobeying totalitarian/socialist bullsh!t, is to go the way of the damn Gestapo.
...And Pelosi and the rest of the mental patients in the democrat party appear to want it this way:
The Gestapo vs. the free-spirited individual American citizens.
Tyranny ping!
That would be the biggest pay per view event in history.
I dont think Pelosi and anybody who votes for this understand the danger they are putting themselves into. Im not going to comment further than that and let others speculate. I carefully choose my words and generalize.
Sleepin' with my butt to the wall
Wishin' my lawyer would call...
So all American citizens must buy insurance, pay a fine based on their tax return, or go to jail.
But an illegal alien, who doesn't have a high school degree and gets paid in cash as a subcontractor, or operates their own cleaning or lawn service, who has no withholding for social security, Medicare, Medicaid, medical, or retirement, who doesn't even file a tax return, he shows up at an emergency room and still gets free medical care.
These illegals are making a killing.
Will hospitals be required to report people who show up without medical insurance? Of course not. Because if the Feds starting checking things like this out, then they would be able to find lots of illegals. Pelosi and Obama will never allow that.
If amnesty passes, will the federal government fine and put former illegals in jail for refusing to purchase medical insurance? Of course not. They'll be allowed in the public option and receive a medical subsidy for allegedly being poor.
I’ll get free healthcare in Prison though, right?
Surely.....someone knows where the Pelosi family sells their grapes.... C’mon, there has to be a reader from the Silverado Trail..... Where do the grapes get fermented?
Surely.....someone knows where the Pelosi family sells their grapes.... C’mon, there has to be a reader from the Silverado Trail..... Where do the grapes get fermented?
But will we be able to freep in prison?
Eeeeeeyewwwwwww!!! Drudge has a very close-up picture of the Botox Queen on his website - looks like she needs some new treatments! DON’T LOOK AT IT!! Thank goodness I have brandy in the house. I may have to drink myself to sleep tonight!
Kill this Bill!
maybe this is a question that could be asked at the wine.woot forum.
Let me put it this way...
I can’t afford a $15,000 policy the government will demand. I’m lucky if I make that much a year.
I can’t afford insurance now and my employer doesn’t offer it, even at 40 hours a week.
Now, under this plan ...I am still not qualified to receive government health insurance. Why not you ask? I have over the set nominal amount in savings, I own my home, and I am single.
My current insurance is catastrophic only. This plan makes it illegal for me to negotiate routine care prices with my general pratictioner.
I am in between being able to have government healthcare and being able to meet their demands. I will get fined some nominal amount, but it doesn’t get me government insurance(contrary to what some previous posters claim).
So under this plan, I risk, no will, go to jail.
Its SLAVERY.
Freedom apparently has been dropped from the American Constitution.
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