Re: Health bills would expand IRS role

On 1/4/2010 11:44 PM, Sid9 wrote:
>
> “Christopher Helms” wrote in message
> news:72c781f8-a8a1-469c-a10e-5a5e8cee4052 @&*$?%u7g2000yqm.googlegroups.com…
>> On Jan 4, 3:11 pm, Möbius Pretzel wrote:
>>> Health bills would expand IRS role
>>>
>>> Internal Revenue Service agents already try to catch tax cheats and
>>> moonshiners. Under the proposed health care legislation, they would
>>> get another assignment: checking to see whether Americans have health
>>> insurance.
>>>
>>> The legislation would require most Americans to have health insurance
>>> and to prove it on their federal tax returns. Those who don’t would
>>> pay a penalty to the IRS.
>>>
>>> http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-01-03-IRS-health-care-ro…
>>
>>
>> The Healthcare Racket is bringing in the big guns to make sure *their*
>> money is being collected from every single American. I believe this
>> represents the first time the IRS has been sent into the field to
>> shake down citizens on behalf of private interests. What this means is
>> that for the first time ever, the insurance industry, with the IRS at
>> its back, will have a claim on your paycheck that will supercede
>> yours.
>
> Republicans emasculated the IRS enforcement division allowing the
> wealthy to hide even more of what they chisel out of their obligation by
> the use of thousands of pages of rules that do not apply to working stiffs.

Yet all we see is Charlie Rangel, and many of Obama’s staff that are the
tax cheats.