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Obama Stating He’s Against Forced Insurance
Filed under: Barack Obama, big pharma, civil disobedience, Communism, Dictatorship, Dissent, Empire, Fascism, forced health care, government control, government regulation, government takeover, H.R. 3962, health care, Healthcare, House, mandatory health care, marxism, medical care, medical industrial complex, Nancy Pelosi, Neolibs, obama, obama care, obama deception, obama tax, obamacare, Oppression, prison industrial complex, Protest, Senate, socialism, tax, universal health care | Tags: JCT, Joint Committee on Taxation
‘Health Reform’ Passes House, Mandatory Insurance Nears
NoWorldSystem.com
November 9, 2009
The House of Representatives passed the ominous health reform bill (H.R. 3962) on Saturday night with a tight vote of 220-215, it’s now up to the Senate to pass this disastrous act that will criminalize Americans who don’t buy into the mandate, if you refuse to comply you could face the maximum of five years in prison or fined up to $250,000.
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) confirms that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in this health care bill that passed (H.R. 3962) 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 your income, ex: you make 50k a year you will be taxed $1,250 per month), 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]
“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
Prosecution is authorized under the Code for a variety of offenses. Depending on the level of the noncompliance, the following penalties could apply to an individual:
Section 7203 – misdemeanor willful failure to pay is punishable by a fine of up to $25,000 and/or imprisonment of up to one year.
Section 7201 – felony willful evasion is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or imprisonment of up to five years.” [page 3]
When confronted with this same issue during its consideration of a similar individual mandate tax, the Senate Finance Committee worked on a bipartisan basis to include language in its bill that shielded Americans from civil and criminal penalties. The Pelosi bill, however, contains no similar language protecting American citizens from civil and criminal tax penalties that could include a $250,000 fine and five years in jail.
“The Senate Finance Committee had the good sense to eliminate the extreme penalty of incarceration. Speaker Pelosi’s decision to leave in the jail time provision is a threat to every family who cannot afford the $15,000 premium her plan creates. Fortunately, Republicans have an alternative that will lower health insurance costs without raising taxes or cutting Medicare,” said Camp.
According to the Congressional Budget Office the lowest cost family non-group plan under the Speaker’s bill would cost $15,000 in 2016. [Source]
This will take away the individual right to have health insurance or not, this is complete control giving the government power to decide who will pay for the mandate depending on the level of disobedience they will decide if you pay up to quarter-of-a-million dollar fine or face up to five years in prison! This will systematically destroy the middle class, break up the families and will increase poverty turning America into a despotic socialist nanny state. The ultra rich one-percent class along with big pharma, the psychology lobby, insurance companies and the prison industrial complex are the only ones that will benefit from this bill.
If you have children and cannot pay the $15,000 family plan, your kids will be in the hands of the government whom are most likely to rape or molest your child, this is ultimately about destroying the middle class, breaking up families so more are subservient to the federal government. Fortunately we still have time before this legislation reaches the pen of Barack H. Obama, more than ever do we need each other to participate in the fight against this tyrannical nightmare, we have no choice but to fight. Contact your RAPEsentatives and demand the death of this bill, reach as many people as you can about the above information and together we will prevail.
Filed under: Barack Obama, Communism, Congress, corpoatism, Dictatorship, Empire, excise tax, Fascism, fines, government bureaucrat, government control, government health care, government regulation, government takeover, health care, health care companies, health care insurance, health care mandate, health care reform, Healthcare, Income Tax, IRS, mandatory health care, mandatory health insurance, medicaid, medical care, medical industrial complex, medicare, nanny state, Nazi, nazi germany, Neolibs, obama, obama care, obama deception, obama fines, obamacare, obamacare fines, Oppression, Police State, Propaganda, public option, Senate, socialism, tax, Taxpayers, universal health care | Tags: JCT, Joint Committee on Taxation, Tom Barthold
Americans threatened with jail time, huge fines for refusing to buy health insurance
Mike Adams
Natural News
September 29, 2009
There’s a popular video circulating on the ‘net right now about how to escape handcuffs without using a key. Americans are watching the video to bone up on essential skills that will soon be needed for health care reform, it seems, since the new laws that are about to be put in place call for Americans to be arrested and thrown in jail if they refuse to buy health insurance.
This has now been confirmed by Tom Barthold, the Chief of Staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation. And it’s not merely about jail time; it’s also about the $25,000 fine that could be levied by the IRS against individuals who refuse to buy health insurance.
That this is even being considered just boggles the mind. If a person is too broke to afford health insurance right now, how are they supposed to be able to buy it after paying a $25,000 fine and spending a year in prison?
As Paul Craig Roberts brilliantly pointed out in a recent essay, this is like trying to solve the homeless problem by forcing homeless people to buy a home, then throwing them in prison when they can’t afford to.
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Buy ObamaCare or Face Jail or $25,000 Fine
Cryptogon
September 26, 2009
Via: Politico:
Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance.
Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty, Barthold wrote on JCT letterhead. He signed it “Sincerely, Thomas A. Barthold.”
The note was a follow-up to Ensign’s questioning at the markup.