Dear Leader’s regime has a brand new pair of jackboots.
Obama’s effort to deny that his mandate to buy insurance is a tax has taken another thumping, this time from fellow Democrats in the Senate Finance Committee.
Chairman Max Baucus’s bill includes the so-called individual mandate, along with what he calls a $1,900 “excise tax” if you don’t buy health insurance. (It had been as much as $3,800 but Democrats reduced the amount last week to minimize the political sticker shock.) And, lo, it turns out that if you don’t pay that tax, the IRS could punish you with a $25,000 fine or up to a year in jail, or both.
Under questioning last week, Tom Barthold, the chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, admitted that the individual mandate would become a part of the Internal Revenue Code and that failing to comply “could be criminal, yes, if it were considered an attempt to defraud.” Mr. Barthold noted in a follow-up letter that the willful failure to file would be a simple misdemeanor, punishable by the $25,000 fine or jail time under Section 7203.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704471504574439243760133458.html
The Assclown-in-Chief needs to get a clue. If he thinks the American people will tolerate this latest draconian measure, he’s in for a huge fucking surprise.
Before he’s kicked out in 2012 or he’s impeached, whichever comes first, I bet there’s going to be a Tea Party on the White House lawn.