Actually according to the independent Congressional Budget Office Obamacare will provide the largest middle class tax cuts for health care in history.
Nineteen million people will receive tax credits worth an average of 4800.00 each to help them afford health insurance resulting in millions of Americans getting health insurance. All too many working class Americans don't earn enough to be able to buy health insurance yet make too much to qualify for medicare and this addresses those people that slip through that crack.
The GOP can't repeal it over a president's veto they would get, so they might as well shut up. Only their brainless base will keep whining about something not in full effect until 2014. Many insured are going to get refunds this year from $150.00-$500.00 with the companies now having to use 80% of premium receipts for benefits. Why are Rush and the mental midgets standing up for these former rip off insurance companies?
First of all, the decision in the health care case did not say that the penalty is a tax. A tax by definition is an additional charge on something you already spend - like a can of soda, a gallon of gas, a house, a ticket to a baseball game, etc. A penalty is something that is imposed when you don't do something you're supposed to do or do something that you;re not supposed to do - like a speeding ticket or a one stroke penalty for grounding your club within a bunker.
[And by the way, Mitt Romney AGREES with the President that this is a penalty, and not a tax. Just like the mandate he imposed in Massachusetts.]
Second, the reality is that this law is one of the largest tax middle class tax CUTS in American history. According to a report from Families USA, 28.6 million Americans, most of them middle-class, will receive tax cuts under the bill due to entering health care exchanges and receiving affordability credits:
An estimated 28.6 million Americans will be eligible for the tax credits in 2014, and the total value of the tax credits that year will be $110.1 billion. The new tax credits will provide much-needed assistance to insured individuals and families who struggle harder each year to pay rising premiums, as well as to unins...
First of all, the decision in the health care case did not say that the penalty is a tax. A tax by definition is an additional charge on something you already spend - like a can of soda, a gallon of gas, a house, a ticket to a baseball game, etc. A penalty is something that is imposed when you don't do something you're supposed to do or do something that you;re not supposed to do - like a speeding ticket or a one stroke penalty for grounding your club within a bunker.
[And by the way, Mitt Romney AGREES with the President that this is a penalty, and not a tax. Just like the mandate he imposed in Massachusetts.]
Second, the reality is that this law is one of the largest tax middle class tax CUTS in American history. According to a report from Families USA, 28.6 million Americans, most of them middle-class, will receive tax cuts under the bill due to entering health care exchanges and receiving affordability credits:
An estimated 28.6 million Americans will be eligible for the tax credits in 2014, and the total value of the tax credits that year will be $110.1 billion. The new tax credits will provide much-needed assistance to insured individuals and families who struggle harder each year to pay rising premiums, as well as to uninsured individuals and families who need help purchasing coverage that otherwise would be completely out of reach financially. Most of the families who will be eligible for the tax credits will be employed, many for small businesses, and will have incomes between two and four times poverty (between $44,100 and $88,200 for a family of four based on 2010 poverty guidelines).
There's alot of people who can't afford healthcare, & with Medicare getting supercuts & the curbing of future growth for 10 yrs-What in God's name to you call that???? People who need help the most-Seniors-are NOT GOING TO GET IT, & most of them are already at poverty level!
Think of your mom & dad, gramma or grampa, getting the ax. You CANNOT TRUST OBAMA.
And no, the IRS is not going to be "hunting down miscreants". You must still be thinking about the lie that "they're going to hire another 16,000 IRS agents under this law", which was debunked over two years ago.
The people who can't afford healthcare are covered by Medicaid, which is not only NOT getting "supercuts" but will be enhanced in states where Republican governors don't throw their own constituents under the bus by opting out of the Medicaid expansion provisions.
The penalty is the tax, which is $95 the 1st yr. $265 or so the 2cd yr. & $665 or so, the 3rd yr.
And if you don't pay, you get a lien on your property!
Who collects taxes? The IRS-plain & simple.
People who can't afford healthcare-there's a huge gap between the people who are on Medicaid-& people who are struggling to make ends meet who can't afford healthcare, but make-even $2 over medicaids limit-& you can't get medicaid, & can't afford healthcare!
So people in this situation-usually Medicare, are screwed, because there is to be
"CURBS FUTURE GROWTH IN MEDICARE OVER 10 YEARS"
And the other big problem is WHOSE GOING TO PAY FOR ALL THIS? The government isn't, so that means the TAXPAYER'S.
And yes, the IRS collects taxes, but they don't "hunt down miscreants".
The rest is too incoherent to even bother with.
Where have you been?
At some point, being wrong becomes a deliberate choice. Unfortunately, it would appear that has now become a common occurrence. People pretend to "trust" sources they know, deep down, are dishonest propaganda. And the result is they "believe" lies like this.
Actually according to the independent Congressional Budget Office Obamacare will provide the largest middle class tax cuts for health care in history.
Nineteen million people will receive tax credits worth an average of 4800.00 each to help them afford health insurance resulting in millions of Americans getting health insurance. All too many working class Americans don't earn enough to be able to buy health insurance yet make too much to qualify for medicare and this addresses those people that slip through that crack.