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PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail
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 bills 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] - - - - - - - - - -




If the government determines that the taxpayers unpaid tax liability results from willful behavior, the following penalties could apply [page 2] - - - - - - - - - -




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 Pelosis 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 Speakers bill would cost $15,000 in 2016.

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[blt40]

Looks like about 250 million people are going to jail then.

[johnnyb34434]

@blt40 see you their????????

[GlockShooter83]

you are a fat

[johnnyb34434]

@GlockShooter83 AND YOU ARE ??????????????

[bisexualbuffthug]

The irs is an illegal operation "nobody" owes them shit!!!!!!!!! But since most people are dumb "everybody" is going to continue to pay them free money just because it is popular to "obey" them for no reason!! Remember when there was a time when there were no property taxes here in america??? No sales taxes. Non of that bs!!!! Until them crooks invaded the whitehouse and spread their infection in american laws taking our freedom away little by little.

[johnnyb34434]

you got it the best response i got in a long time and thanks for waking up.

[DrLiberal23]

We gotta lynch them black folks cuz' the south needs to RISE AGAIN!!!

YEEEEHAW

[NolanTheNolester]

You speak some truth but I still think your crazy and y do u call us sheep it's annoying

[fundreamer1]

What a great country of freedom we live in, free to buy our way out of jail. The Constitution is a thing of the past and it makes for good conversation, but that is all now. It says we have the right to free travel, let's see you do it without paying for a drivers license or insurance first. We can't decide what we want to spend our money on, the government is helping us out there too. Anyone that says we are still a free nation is part of the money system you have to pay to keep your freedom.

[GlockShooter83]

@bisexualbuffthug there are no tax laws?is thiswhat you are saying? WRONG! dont pay your taxes next year and see what happens dumb ass...this is just more bs propaganda...nothings worse than only the top 5% of earners in the country being "awarded" health care, while the middle class fall into bankruptcy when one of our family members gets ill, and the poor-they simply die.

[johnnyb34434]

99.9% of the sheep will do what their told thats why they did it.