Imagine you are sitting at home one day in the near future and you see a letter from the IRS. You open it and see that your family is being fined $2000 because you didn’t comply with the ObamaCare mandate. You turn to your wife and ask her about it. She states that the family does in fact have health insurance through the States’ “health exchange.”
After a sinuous journey through the IRS’s voice mail system, you determine that the penalty (“tax” per the Supreme Court) was imposed because your family was deemed not eligible for the ObamaCare health exchanges. That you should have purchased private health insurance.
The reason?
Your 13-year-old daughter had been babysitting the next door neighbor’s toddler over the summer, and the neighbor had claimed the amount on their taxes. You did not claim this money when you did your taxes, and adding this amount to your total income had put your family outside of the 133% poverty level for eligibility in the health exchanges.
Yes, ObamaCare will require claimed income from everyone living in the household. Grandma got a $10.00 rebate from the company that she gets her diabetes supplies from? Counts. Johnny won a $20.00 gift certificate for selling the most candy bars at a school fundraiser? Counts. The IRS will be sifting through every aspect of your lives. Is calling these new IRS powers Gestapo-like a stretch? Probably not. The IRS will need to determine a household’s total income down to the penny to determine what healthcare you qualify for; whether you will get tax credits; whether you are eligible for the health exchanges, and how much exactly you should be fined if you fail to purchase the “correct” health insurance.
Take this enormous power, the digging through every financial aspect of a family’s finances, and quadruple it. In only one small part of IRS’s far-reaching tentacles is the new 1099 requirement for businesses. “According to Section 9006 of the 2,409-page Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, beginning on January 1, 2012 all businesses will have to issue 1099 tax forms not just to contractors, but to any individual or corporation from which they buy more than $600 in goods or services in a tax year. Currently, 1099s need only be issued to individuals, not corporations.” Add to that the thousands of new regulations that will determine what type of health insurance they need to buy for employees, penalties for non-compliance, how penalties will be calculated, not to mention the thousands of dollars per employee businesses will be required to spend on health insurance.
ObamaCare, as conservatives have been saying all along, is not about healthcare. It is about the increase in power of the federal government. It is about controlling every aspect of a citizen’s life. It is about a hostility towards the capitalist system. It is about ushering in a “fundamental transformation” of this country. It is about moving the United States towards a democratic socialism modeled on the Western European countries, that favors unions, “community groups” (ACORN-style organizations), and large, government-controlled, government-preferred corporations.
Of course, the fact that all of these governments that have adhered to this system are crumbling before our eyes does not seem to deter our Fundamental Transformer-in-Chief Barack Hussein Obama.
If ObamaCare is permitted to stand we will not become Greece. We will, as Maine Governor Paul LePage has intimated, become Hitler’s Germany.
And that is not an exaggeration.
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Here’s an IRS “Gestapo” story you’ll appreciate. It’s my own personal horror story set in 1987 when I was 17. I got married and had a daughter at 17. Unbeknownst to me, my husband owed the IRS taxes. I proceeded to put our wedding gift money in a joint account with him. I wrote the checks for the bills, and never thought twice about it…until I got a letter from our bank saying that the IRS had levied our account. My husband was a fisherman so I had the pleasure of dealing with them regarding the balance. I told them, “Hey, I didn’t know he owed this money when I married him, and all I can tell you is that I can make arrangements to pay you within reason.” Nope. They wanted 5k RIGHT NOW. They were so intimidating I cracked to an agent on the phone, “What do you want? My first born?” Without hesitation, he was like, “Maybe.” So, beware. These are the guys who will be all up in your cereal bowl before you can say Cheerios. Very, very gestapo-y based on my own personal experience. By the way, the bank was nice enough to waive all the bounced check fees. Thank you, once upon a time, Fleet Bank.
So, the IRS is at fault because your husband knowingly with held information from you? The IRS levied your account lawfully. Be mad at the guy you married, not the IRS. So, it is NOT an IRS “Gestapo story”, it’s an “I married someone who didnt tell me that they owed the IRS money” story.
Their collection tactics were very #SS ish. That’s all. Didn’t you get that part? I didn’t blame the IRS. I blame them for the intimidation tactics that they use ad hoc.
Some things seem easy done. No 1099 less than $600 so cut your business to less or better yet, shutdown and have everyone go on Obama handouts. Personally I would like to see all workers and small business close the door. Then I would like to see the Coal people and Coal fired power plants shut down and turn out the lights on the Grid. Then let the EPA huff and puff on the windmills to get enough electrical power. Of course when the power companies quit there goes the green energy too. Just think the IRS would have no one to harass as no one works, No 1099 to deal with and no cash to the Government so the IRS, EPA, FDA (murder for corporate profits inc) and the rest of the Socialist/Communist would be out of work too. For one I am tired of being ruled by Agencies that I did not vote for or a voice control over. How did this happen? Your own elected person that was to represent the people sold out to the highest bidder and It is both parties. So Comrade enjoy your Slavery in the Socialist States of America.
Amen, Amen, and Amen. It will take nothing less than complete defiance.
Do you now understand why FEMA has been setting up all the unused detention facilities? The one’s that are being maintained even though there is no population in them yet. This has been in the works long before our government put their token in the White House.
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Is History Repeating Itself?
http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/09/20/is-history-repeating-itself/
“Food For Thought”
Semper Fi!
“2012 Federal Poverty Level
The benefit levels of many low-income assistance programs are based on these poverty guidelines. Find your family size and monthly or yearly income below to determine your FPL percentage category.
Note: Pregnant women count as two people for the purpose of this chart. ”
Uh huh. ONLY WHEN CONVENIENT, is a baby a person. So, theoretically, a woman can get preggers once a year, in time to qualify for the deduction, then murder her inconvenient child. Wonder how long it’ll take for them to figure that one out – it took less than a nanosecond for me…
http://coverageforall.org/pdf/FHCE_FedPovertyLevel.pdf
To be fair to the Nazis, Gestapo is the wrong term to use for the IRS, it
should be the KGB
So what do you think will happen after a few of the IRS strong arm agents gets shot? I picture this as not working out very well for the like of BHO or anyone that follows after him. The person representing the IRS is a federal employee. If you shoot a fedeal employee you get tried in a federal court. If your found guilty you go to a federal prison. We’ve all heard the stories about these summer camps.
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