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Buy Health Insurance or go to Jail.

hypocritexposer

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September 25, 2009
Categories: Senate
Ensign receives handwritten confirmation

This doesn't happen often enough.

Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.) received a handwritten note Thursday from Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold confirming the penalty for failing to pay the up to $1,900 fee for not buying health insurance.

Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty, Barthold wrote on JCT letterhead. He signed it "Sincerely, Thomas A. Barthold."

The note was a follow-up to Ensign's questioning at the markup.

http://www.politico.com/livepulse/0909/Ensign_receives_handwritten_confirmation_.html?showall#
 

MoGal

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Folks, the following senators needed to be voted out and I would bet money they all belong on the Council of Foreign Relation, this nationalized healthcare is a United Nations global government goal.


http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33682&page=1#c1

The “Baucus bill” is being rushed through the Senate based on an outline provided by Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT). The 564 amendments being considered are no better.

It’s like a jumbled pile of notes stuffed into a suggestion box. Only after Senators are asked to approve the bill in committee -- this week -- would congressional staff be asked to write it all out in full -- expected to be at least 1,500 pages. (The outline is 200 pages.)

What’s the rush? Liberal supporters of health care reform saw the negative public reaction when the House bill was posted on the Internet just before Congress’ summer recess. Now they want to hide the gory details until just before a Senate vote is called on the new version.

Remember the town hall in Philadelphia with Sen. Arlen Specter (D, PA) and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius? She told angry citizens, “The Senate bill isn't written so don't boo the senator for not reading a bill that isn't written.” So why are she, President Obama, Sen. Specter, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) supporting phantom legislation?

It’s bad enough not to read a bill first. It’s far worse not to put it in writing so everyone has a chance to read it. We should not do an extreme makeover of one-sixth of America’s economy based on fuzzy thoughts not put into writing and examined in detail, with plenty of time to do so.

Only one Democrat, Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D, AR) supported an effort to make the bill written out and publicly available for at least 72 hours before any committee vote. All Republican Senators on the committee supported that effort. But it was voted down, 11-12, thanks to votes by:

Sen. Max Baucus (D, WY) He's from Montana, not wyoming
Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D, NM)
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D, WA)
Sen. Tom Carper (D, DE)
Sen. Kent Conrad (D, ND)
Sen. John Kerry (D, MA)
Sen. Robert Menendez (D, NJ)
Sen. Bill Nelson (D, FL)
Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, WV)
Sen. Charles Schumer (D, NY)
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D, MI)
Sen. Ron Wyden (D, OR)
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from one of the comments: This morning Senator Conrad (a Democrat) asked Senator Baucus (a Democrat) if any cost information had been received from the Congressional Budget Office on his "new and improved" healthcare bill. Senator Baucus' response: "Yes, but nothing we want to talk about publicly." That statement in combination with Democrats' refusal to make the bill available for Americans to read three days before Congress votes on it makes healthcare reform even more scary than it was before Senator Baucus' "new and improved" bill.
 

Steve

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Sandhusker said:
Would anybody care to explain to me how this is constitutional? The goverment can force you to buy a product/service?

they're analogy is that we pay for auto insurance..

unlike car insurance, where you can choose not to have a car..

other then suicide.. I don't see a choice in forcing a person to carry health insurance.
 
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Anonymous

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hypocritexposer said:
What would it cost the taxpayer to house a person in Jail, for a year, anyway?

Next question wont they have to build more jails?
 

Lonecowboy

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Pig Farmer said:
hypocritexposer said:
What would it cost the taxpayer to house a person in Jail, for a year, anyway?

Next question wont they have to build more jails?

haven't you listened to the democrat mantra----

it's all about jobs, jobs, jobs!

look at all the jobs created by throwing us in jail and building jails and hiring jailers, then there is the lawyers, judges, bailifs, etc.
man this will surely stimulate the economy!
 

I Luv Herfrds

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Yes I will vote against Baucus again and again until he is finally out of office. Rather funny after the first few town hall meetings he didn't come to them in person again, but did it by video link.
 
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