House Committee on Ways & Means - Republican
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.”
Pelosi and her commie boss Obama are just following that good old Maoist precept: Power comes from the barrel of a gun.
Small wonder. Aging harridan Pelosi grew up with it, and Obama learned it at his mentor Bill Ayers’ knee.
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… they can’t throw all of us in jail ….
They’ll try.
This is, if it works, just the tip of the iceburg. The next thing they must do is disarm america, then marshal law, and then impose fines for various trifels and have to impose endentured servitude, and ultimatly a slave systemby then if you cant work, ultimatly euthenasia.
Not a very convincing attempt, Plotus.
Gotta give him credit for sincerity, though. All those typos result from impassioned outrage, not illiteracy, right?
If the IP address is anything to go by, they result from Potomac proximity.