PELOSI: Buy a $15,000 Policy or Go to Jail
Written by Ed on November 12, 2009 – 7:21 pm -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 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. Read more:
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By Nola on Nov 14, 2009 11:57 pm | Reply
I have a good idea, or at least it might be. Why don’t we all refuse to pay $15,000.00 for a policy and let Ms. Pelousy have us put in jail. They would have to put us in a Fed. prison because it is a Fed. law we will be breaking. I hear they are like country clubs. We could just live off the Government like all the others are doing now. When our 5 year sentence is up just refuse again and back we go. What you think people? It doesn’t look like anything else is going to save us. It will be 2010 before we can show them our displeasure and by then they will have shoved the new (save us) health bill will be passed.
By Ed on Nov 15, 2009 8:34 pm | Reply
If everyone would do this, there wouldn’t be enough room to put everyone in prison. I don’t intend to pay for health care for people who don’t work. How about everyone else?
By Nola on Nov 15, 2009 10:25 pm | Reply
The only problem is you have been paying for them all along. You will just have to pay more now.