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The Internal Revenue Service would gain sweeping new powers under President Obama's healthcare reform proposals, in what Republicans on the House Ways and Means Committee are calling a "dangerous expansion" of IRS powers.

That's according to a nine-page Republican report from the Committee on Ways and Means on Thursday. It's titled "The Wrong Prescription" Democrats' Health Overhaul Dangerously Expands IRS Authority."

Among the new powers the IRS would assume, the report says: The authority to confiscate tax refunds, to impose fines of over $2,200 per taxpayer, and to verify whether taxpayers' health insurance coverage is "acceptable."

One measure of the scope of the IRS' new responsibilities under the healthcare overhaul: The agency might have to hire as many as 16,500 additional auditors, agents, and other employees in order to administer the program, according to Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., the ranking Republican on the Ways and Means Committee.

"It is a very dangerous expansion of the IRS' power and reach into the lives of virtually every American," Camp said in a statement released Thursday afternoon.

The Ways and Means report portrays healthcare reform as having a wide-ranging impact on how the IRS operates, including:

IRS agents would be tasked with determining whether Americans had obtained the insurance coverage required under the individual mandate.
Individuals could be fined $2,250 or 2 percent of income, whichever is greater, if you are unable to prove you have "minimum essential coverage."
The IRS would be empowered to confiscate tax refunds if necessary.
Audits probably would increase as a result of the legislation's new requirements.
The budget for IRS operations will balloon by $10 billion in the next decade in order to administrate the new program.
Nearly half of the new individual mandate taxes will be paid "by Americans earning less than 300 percent of poverty, $66150 for a family of four.
A statement that Democrats are sure to dispute, the report, which Camp and fellow GOP Rep. Charles Boustany of Louisiana prepared, says healthcare reform would "fundamentally alter the relationship between the IRS and taxpayers."

Essentially, the Republicans state, the reform bill makes the IRS responsible for "tracking the monthly health insurance status of roughly 300 million Americans."

They express the concern that reform would alter the IRS' traditional mission of collecting revenue, and adding a social-program delivery function to its portfolio.

"This is an unprecedented new role for the IRS — one that will inject the IRS even further into the lives of American families," the report warns.

Oh yeah  - that should be expected.
Get health insurance or the IRS will come after you.

Bravo fuman - the best thing for we conservatives is idiot liberals signing your own death warrant!!

You have great potential

WASHINGTON, DC – The Obama administration’s chief actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) notified Republican leaders Saturday that the “very tight time frame” and “complexity” of the Democrats’ health spending bill would prevent them from fully analyzing the costs and efficacy of the bill before the House voted on the legislation. The letter was in response to a request from House and Senate Republicans.

The Chief Actuary, Richard S. Foster, wrote: “In your letter, you requested that we provide the updated actuarial estimates in time for your review prior to the expected House debate and vote on this legislation on March 21,2010. I regret that my staff and I will not be able to prepare our analysis within this very tight time frame, due to the complexity of the legislation.”

nankerphelge wrote on Mar 20^th, 2010 at 10:38am:



is this in the same category as having a lesbian daughter and being against same sex realtionship equality?

nankerphelge wrote on Mar 20^th, 2010 at 3:20pm:


you want a clue, it's a free market, go get one... i'm not shoving clues down your throat, you might enjoy it.

fuman wrote on Mar 19^th, 2010 at 6:02pm:

Hack: 3a : a person who works solely for mercenary reasons : hireling <party hacks> b : a writer who works on order; also : a writer who aims solely for commercial success c : hacker 2


Prove it, Fumin'.

Oh!
You mean a Cheney hiccup...

And if I am not mistaken, didn't Cheney say that he supported states that decided to permit gay marriage?

So not only was it an incoherent Cheney hiccup.
It was flat out wrong.

Wild Bill wrote on Mar 20^th, 2010 at 4:51pm:



Mr Bill, uh, can I call you Wild? Thanks . . .

Wild, my claim that Noonan is a hack should have been understood to be my opinion. Often, I will type "IMO" to let readers know this. Since I didn't do that this time it is understandable that you would need "proof" she is a hack. After all, when someone is deemed a "hack", it is either true or it is false, right? There can be no middle ground on this label.

Please try to imagine what Noonan would write if Obama traveled overseas while the most significant piece of legislation in our lifetime was being worked out. For her to be so ashamed over this is proof in and of itself.

She also claimed that President Obama "misunderstood what history was asking of him" when he started the push for health care reform, and that it was "fatally off-point." As JC has pointed out many times here, Obama campaigned on HCR. We expected him to reform the industry. Since HCR started, the massive faux news misinformation campaign is proof to me that HCR is the right thing to do. Have you seen the protester interviews on the web? They are upset about stuff that isn't in the bill. They get their news from one source, faux news.

Also, her perspective on the Bret Baier interview with Obama was not based in reality (IMO).

PS
I was using this definition:
hack - a mediocre and disdained writer

PPS - Did you know that she considers herself to be a "full body communicator? Her words, not mine.  I shit you not.

nankerphelge wrote on Mar 20^th, 2010 at 6:00pm:




not a hiccup, just a meaningless remark to a family or relative on an issue, like obama's 2nd cuz/cheney's daughter... you go all postal... it has been great watching you guys spin out, and we still have 3 more years to watch you guys freak out...

You were never much of a numbers cruncher, were you Pdog? Hey my man, who the hell do you think is going to pay for your kids' insurance until their 26? While you think on that one, why not ask yourself who's going pay for your neighbors' kids? And their neighbors kids? And so on, and so on, .....  

We all are!!!! We all are, and now we've just assured that our kids will be as well from this point forward should this shit bill pass.  And the ones that make more money are going to pay more, as it should be! Right, Pdog? I mean they're rich after all! Fuck 'em! As Barack said last year, "There will be a time for profits, but that time is not now!"



That you even still buy into this liberal non-sense is maddening. There is no such thing as redistributing wealth Pdog!!! There has never in man's history been a government that has "redistributed wealth"!! The government can only spread poverty!


This is the largest government spending increase in 70 years, and it will "fundamentally change", the nation as we have known it, and as it was left to us. It is also the largest, and most sweeping governmental power grab in over a century, and it will "fundamentally change" the citizen/government relationship. A bunch of radical leftists are running our nation that honestly believe that their world view is the only one that matters, and their unquenchable thirst for ever more power is on full display. They are going to get this go damned health bill passed whether we like it or not dammit!


Pdog, you have defended these clowns for a long time now. I just want to know one thing. Why? Why do defend the blatant unethical back room deals? The 300 million dollar kickbacks? The corrupt bribery? The strong arm threat tactics? The willful disregard for the will of the American people?


Please tell me you are not stupid enough to believe that Barack Obama is the most intellectual president ever?!?! He's a god damned ideologue who has been surrounded my radicals since birth, Pdog!!! His father, who abandoned him, was a full blown communist politico from Kenya! He was a government economist! True story, Pdog. He preached "wealth redistribution" before Barack Jr. was ever born! His mother, who abandoned him to her own mother, became very active in some of the most radical leftists movements of her day. When young "Barry" went away to school he chose to hang with the Marxist professors at both Harvard, and at Chicago.

I'm no Dr. Phil, but I'd say there are all kinds of issues going on inside that little pointed head of the Marxist One. Certainly some abandonment things going on there, and of course, his desire to emulate his own father that he barely knew. He's also as arrogant, and smug as they come. Add a healthy dose of hatred for the USA, and you've got yourself one snobbish elitist radical leftist fuck.


He's your Barry!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-k04caUt84



Riffy

no you dinnt!