IRS will be in charge under Obamacare

While slumming around the wrong side of the internet we came across another story by Byron York of the Washington Examiner. It appears that the good Byron has no life and has been reading through the Government Health Care bill. He found this little nugget:

Health care reform means more power for the IRS

Huh? What does the Infernal Revenue Service have to do with health care? We’ll let Byron tell us.

The plan envisioned by President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats is enacted, the primary federal bureaucracy responsible for implementing and enforcing national health care will be an old and familiar one: the Internal Revenue Service. Under the Democrats’ health care proposals, the already powerful — and already feared — IRS would wield even more power and extend its reach even farther into the lives of ordinary Americans, and the presidentially-appointed head of the new health care bureaucracy would have access to confidential IRS information about millions of individual taxpayers.

In short, health care reform, as currently envisioned by Democratic leaders, would be built on the foundation of an expanded and more intrusive IRS.

Oh just <Expletive Deleted> WONDERFUL! This is all we need. One of the most hated agencies in the United States put in charge of administering Obamacare, which is a disaster in its own right.

Under the various proposals now on the table, the IRS would become the main agency for determining who has an “acceptable” health insurance plan; for finding and punishing those who don’t have such a plan; for subsidizing individual health insurance costs through the issuance of a tax credits; and for enforcing the rules on those who attempt to opt out, abuse, or game the system. A substantial portion of H.R. 3200, the House health care bill, is devoted to amending the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 in order to give the IRS the authority to perform these new duties.

Leave it to the morons on Capitol Hill to come up with yet another way to anger the American people. It’s bad enough having to deal with the IRS when it comes to paying the extortionate levels of taxes we now have.  Now they want to use the IRS to make sure you are in compliance with their totalitarian power grab with regards to your medical care.

Now what else does Byron have to report?

The Democrats’ plan would require all Americans to have “acceptable” insurance coverage (the legislation includes long and complex definitions of “acceptable”) and would designate the IRS as the agency charged with enforcing that requirement. On your yearly 1040 tax return, you would be required to attest that you have “acceptable” coverage. Of course, you might be lying, or simply confused about whether or not you are covered, so the IRS would need a way to check your claim for accuracy. Under current plans, insurers would be required to submit to the IRS something like the 1099 form in which taxpayers report outside income. The IRS would then check the information it receives from the insurers against what you have submitted on your tax form.

If it all matches up, you’re fine. If it doesn’t, you will hear from the IRS. And if you don’t have “acceptable” coverage, you will be subject to substantial fines — fines that will be administered by the IRS.

Oh that’s going to go over well with the people in this country. First, Government run Obamacare is designed to destroy the health insurance industry, not “Compliment it.” Second, the IRS is by far one of the most incompetent of the government agencies. Care to hazard a guess how many people have been ruined because they forgot to carry the 1?

Under some versions of health reform now circulating on Capitol Hill, the IRS would also be intimately involved in how you pay for insurance.

Intimately involved? More like anally assaulted with baseball bat wrapped in razor wire if you ask me.

The plans now under discussion would either provide a subsidy through a tax credit or directly from the Health Choices Administration. Health Choices administration. Now there’s a poorly named agency. There will be no choices allowed under The One’s perfectly administered health care system. They won’t be needed!

In either scenario, the IRS would be the key to making the system work. Before you could receive any subsidy, whether through the IRS or not, the Health Choices Administration would have to determine whether you are eligible for it. To do so, the bills under consideration would give the Health Choices Commissioner the authority to demand sensitive, confidential information from the IRS about individual taxpayers. The IRS would have to provide it.

Under current law, it is a felony for a government official to release taxpayer information in all but the most limited of circumstances.

Basically the IRS can only hand out data if a criminal investigation is under way. They can also hand it out under special circumstances to the Social Security Administration and the Veterans’ Administration for the determination of benefits. This is the way it should be.

The health care bills would change the Internal Revenue Code to permit the IRS to give similar information to the vast, new health care bureaucracy.

That means the personal tax information of millions of Americans would enter the system whether they want it to or not. “There’s a mandate to buy insurance,” says one Republican House aide. “You have to buy it. You have millions of people who can’t buy it without a subsidy, so they will have no choice but to accept the subsidy in order to buy insurance, and then the Health Choices Commissioner will have access to their tax records.”

Now there’s a nice and secure system. No one will access your records without authority, right? Of course they’ll be accessed by people with no authority to do so. Here’s a few examples:

1. Passport files of candidates breached
2. 3 searches of ‘Joe the Plumber’ BMV files probed
3. UCLA workers snooped in Spears’ medical records
4. IRS employee sentenced for snooping

These examples were found with just 5 minutes of Googling.

“How many hands would this information go through?” asks a GOP source in the Senate. “What are the quality controls? This increases the risk of misusing this information.”

This is a rhetorical question, right? Does this source really need to ask?

Some versions of the bill even permit the release of confidential taxpayer information for decidedly less pressing reasons. In H.R. 3200, the IRS would be required to provide taxpayer information to the Social Security Administration for the purpose of helping Social Security officials find qualifying seniors who can then be encouraged to enroll in the prescription drug program.

Uh huh. Great. More dinnertime calls from telemarketers exempt by government fiat from the Do Not Call list.

“There is no precedent for using taxpayer information for the purpose of identifying people to go out and advertise to them,” says the House expert.

No kidding. Of course there isn’t. Who would have ever thought that taking the IRS database and giving it to telemarketers would be a great idea? Oh, silly me. Obamabots do. In what passes for a brain among those nitwits, Obama and the progressive liberals are always right and never have a bad idea, and my pet unicorn farts rainbows too.

So far, there has been little substantive public debate about the integral role of the IRS in nearly every aspect of the various national health care proposals.

That’s probably due to the fact NO ONE KNOWS about it my good Bryon. No one at Anger Central did and we’ve been following this pile of elephant poo since it first came out. Certainly the Mostly Stupid Media with their infinite number of fact fakers haven’t been keeping people informed on this drivel masquerading as health care reform.

Should the IRS be involved in health care enforcement in the first place? As seen in the town halls across the country in August, many Americans are concerned about the coercive nature of the proposed national health care system. Handing the IRS the power to monitor every American’s place in the system worries them even more.

Oh sure, let’s give the IRS even MORE power to screw up the lives of people. We, the American People can give a simple, to the point answer. NO!

Got that Obama? You are NOT going to hand even more power to a pack of bureaucratic morons who’s only goals in life are:

1. Lunch
2. Quitting time
3. Vacation
4. Retirement with full benefits
5. Screwing over anyone they don’t like.

Backers of the Democratic bills are betting that the handouts involved — giving people money to buy health insurance — will outweigh concerns about privacy and coercive government. Perhaps. But before Congress makes any decision on national health care, voters should know just what it will involve.

Sorry Charlie, you aren’t going to buy my vote with my money. I will fight this with every fiber of my being and I’m going to do all I can to make sure the whole country knows what the Democrats and their Rino pals are planning on doing next.

So, to all of you out there, get on your phone, send letters, email and confront, (Politely with no threats of violence), your representatives and senators. Tell them that you will not stand for your most private information being flung willy-nilly through out the bureaucracies of Washington DC.

If this POS passes, you will have no one to blame but yourseleves.

~The Angry Webmaster~