Under Obamacare, IRS Has Power to Penalize Americans Who Refuse to Buy Required Insurance

In another indictment of Obamacare, a congressional report has found that the IRS will have the power to penalize, by means of fines, Americans who refuse to buy required, government insurance. This further, nauseating factor of Obamacare is actually merely a symptom of what the report by the House Ways and Means Committee is really saying: greatly expanded powers for the IRS to encroach upon the lives of average Americans. In the report titled "The Wrong Prescription: Democrats' Health Overhaul Dangerously Expands IRS Authority," other ills of Obamacare are outlined in ever more shocking detail. Some of these include the power of the IRS under Obamacare to: confiscate Americans' tax refunds as a doubly insulting complement to aforementioned penalties for not buying government-mandated insurance; the likelihood of IRS audits (always nice around this time of year) increasing; and the swelling of an already unpopular bureaucracy by increasing by nearly 17000 the number of IRS auditors and agents!

According to Republicans Camp and Boustany of the House, the report boils down to more, increased power by the IRS to come and meddle in American's lives, and this goes directly to Obamacare. In example, despite the fact that the IRS in its purpose-at least at the time of this writing, anyway-is only supposed to collect revenue, under Obamacare, it would expand in size and power (big government alert!) to also add a mandate for social-program delivery. In the House report, it's revealed that another new IRS power would be to actually oversee whether average Americans had obtained the insurance required under the individual mandate and even verify whether an American's insurance coverage is "acceptable" or not. Insane! No...this has to be filed under worse than insane!

Corresponding with Obama's overall plan to take away more of your freedoms in his drive to expand government power, the only purpose of expanding the IRS' scope is to increase control over the lives of average Americans. What else can it be? Nothing else, that's what! Otherwise, why involve the IRS in Obamacare and expand its powers so that it becomes something of a sinister police force over Americans, charged with checking up on citizens to see whether they have the "acceptable" form of insurance or not?! And if you don't, guess what happens next? According to the same House report, you could get fined either $2200 or two percent of your hard-earned income (whichever is greater, natch) per individual! No wonder there will be a huge Tea party rally later today to necessarily protest this barely veiled excuse for increased government power disguised as health care "reform!" No wonder only a few support Obamacare (when you count those ideologues who are either too stupid or too dependent on government to give a damn), but a solid majority opposes it!

Interestingly, news of this sinister provision to have the IRS essentially play Big Brother in the most sinister sense of the phrase isn't new; conservative outlets have covered this since last August! But I bet you hadn't heard of it that far back, just as many Americans probably haven't heard of it even today because the liberal media is cheerleading for Obamacare, having again thrown objectivity out the window and showing that they're nothing but Obama lapdogs who'd do anything to help him pass his hateful agenda.

This intimidating, IRS provision snuck into Obamacare legislation was so upsetting and threatening that current House Minority Leader John Boehner (soon to become new Speaker come November maybe, huh?) appeared on Fox News yesterday just to sound the righteous alarm about all the stinking provisions snuck into the legislation. Bless his heart.

I almost hate to say it because it will only be for something like the hundredth time, but Glenn Beck's...entirely correct! At least on the issue of Obama pursuing an aggressive expansion of federal government powers over average Americans. Why, he's been warning his fellow countrymen for as long as I can remember about how Obama is slowly but surely moving to more and more government control-simultaneous to less tolerance for the private sector-and this latest indictment of Obamacare certainly verifies just that.

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Sources:

David A. Patten, Obamacare Grants IRS Perilous Power, GOP Says, Newsmax

Vicki Needham, Republicans assail IRS provision in health care bill, The Hill

Jennifer Harper, Voight, tea party groups plan last-minute protest, Washington Times

Health Care Reform, Rasmussen Reports

Thomas Lifson, IRS to be Obamacare Enforcer, American Thinker

Glenn Beck, More Government Spending is not the Answer, GlennBeck.com