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Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail

FROM: Committee On Ways & Means Republicans and Drudge Report

HEAD: PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail

SUB-HEAD: JCT Confirms Failure to Comply with Democrats’ Mandate Can Lead to
5 Years in Jail
Friday, November 06, 2009


Today, 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)
confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy
health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as
amended) 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
income), 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]
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“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.
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And you dud Dems go along with this?  You should be ashamed.

"To force people to get health insurance, you've got to have a very harsh
penalty," --The Whiny Lyin' Prick in February, 2008

"Where in the Constitution is the federal government authorized to create,
manage, regulate, etc. medical care." --Jack Dalton

"Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism." --V. Lenin

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