Pelosi: Buy A $15,000 Policy Or Go To Jail
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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Don’t you just love it when these “compassionate” democrats pass legislation in our honor which will costs us thousands of $USD and some jail time. Their benevolence just absolutely overwhelms me.
Would some please pour a bucket of water over this evil witch’s head so she will disappear?
Anywhere from 10 to 35 million people instantly
becoming criminals because they cannot afford this
mandated insurance. There’s not enough jails, so
where are the internment camps being built?
And probably under the guise of FEMA camps.
Maybe Bill Ayres dream of murdering millions of people is finally about to come true.
Once you become a criminal you cant own guns either.
If you make everyone criminals and the dem’s can confiscate anyone’s means of future revolt.
Ms. Pelosi,
Eat shit and bark at the moon. You ain’t going to get a penny out of me. You’d have more luck squeezing blood out of granite.
I already pay a monthly premium for Medicare. What? You thought it was free? HAHAHA. Yeah right.
*Sigh* Is there any chance that the San Andreas fault could make a major correction in the geography of California (The Bay Area) say sometime during Congress’s Thanksgiving Recess when Madame Speaker is at home in her district. I’m just sayin….*sigh* Oh well, hope and change…hoping for change.
A major earthquake has been predicted to strike the Left Coast for years. We constantly get small tremors here. The big one could happen at any time we’re told…
There are still a lot of good people remaining in Cal but from the looks of all the House For Sale signs and U-Hauls on the road, that number is rapidly going down. Good people are getting the hell out.
Actually there are more people moving out than moving in according to the experts. Real estate suks. Cost of living bites the big one. Taxes suk and the leftists rage they have all the answers. And then we have the Governator.
Time to get the fuck out.
I was reading your post Sgt. and thought about how this destruction and exodus from California might be what the libtards want.
Nevermind that LaRaza has already claimed California as it’s own empire.
She ( the piglosi ) has millions in her bank account and thinks she can squeeze more out of our wallets for her retirement. Go to hell you reptile.
Jail it is then. I will not buy government mandated insurance. Nor will I buy a vehicle from a Barry and/or UAW owned manufacturer.
Where are they going to put all of us health care criminals? This bitch is asking for a major ass kickin’. I hope her face cracks on TV and her reptilian face is exposed.
Maybe it could be like camp!
Like I’ve said before, when she finds out that she is NOT the real AntiChrist, she is gonna be pissed…
FUCK THAT BITCH-ASS CUNT. SHE’S GONNA THROW ME IN JAIL OR FINE ME 250k BECAUSE I DIDN’T BUY HER BULLSHIT HEALTH CARE?! ROFLMAO
I WILL PROUDLY AND HONORABLY DIE FIGHTING FOR MY LIBERTY BEFORE I EVER PAY 1 CENT TO THAT CUNT.
Oh f/y Nancy. Be careful, or your nose is going to fall off.
We have become desensitized by the unbridled ABSURDITY of this.Hearing outrageous things everyday eventually leads one to acceptance.This is part of their plan.Years ago I worked with a manager who said tha easiest way to steal something from somebody is to tell them your doing it.
Can we not impeach this woman on the grounds of Section 8 ?
She is insane and we have lost sight of that.
I aint paying one “red” cent and I aint going to jail either!
C’mon and get me right now…I’m waiting.
This is ignorant, the whole thing is old fashioned stupid. There is no way that I am going to stand by and accept this foolishness. I have been pushed and pushed and pushed far enough…I can be pushed no farther.
I will not submit, I will not surrender, I will not succumb. I will resist will all of my life’s effort. I will fight and rally others to fight with me. I will become the enemy of my own country if my country becomes an enemy to me. And it appears that is the position that I find myself in!
Who will fight? Who will resist? Who will rally to the defense of our country?
It is time to take to the streets with arms and demand our elected leaders submit to the will of the people and any citizens who stand in our way become our enemies in this war for America.
When shall we meet…where shall we go…when shall we start?
We need to round up a bunch of pro-bono patriotic lawyers who are on our side… just incase.
Unfortunately the only pro-bono work lawyers like to do is preventing the death penalty.
Change who you are Pelosi or go to hell.
Jail it is!