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Obamacare creates jobs; 16,500 new IRS agents
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2010 Mar 27, 1:19am 9,098 views 72 comments
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Vicente
2010 Apr 6, 2:39pm
Well look at this way. Their family & friends in the Real World, are probably happy that Ray/Abe are off spending hours doing battle with a bunch of internet people. Keeps them off the street.
RayAmerica
2010 Apr 7, 6:26am
Abe, we can't stop them from drinking their KoolAid, but we can help make it taste a little worse. Little elliemae, otherwise known as the Queen of Hate, must be having a hard time drinking hers when it's pointed out Obama hasn't stopped torture. So much for Hope & Change. LOL
RayAmerica
2010 Apr 7, 6:38am
You just keep smoking that pot and watching Idol and Dancing with the Stars. Everything will be cool.
Los Angeles Business Journal, April 5, 2010. "Company ripped by steep taxes". After battling local, city and state regulations, a tax bracket adopted by the City Council last month was the last straw. The city stands to lose as many as 1,000 jobs if the company (LegalZoom) decides to relocate to another state. The city may compromise...if not, "bye bye now".
But no, government regulation has NO relation to jobs moving out of state or out of the country, hahaha.
Vicente
2010 Apr 7, 9:22am
You just keep smoking that pot and watching Idol and Dancing with the Stars. Everything will be cool.
I've never smoked pot, nor watched "Idol and Dancing with the Stars". I don't own a TV my evening entertainment is play with Little Vicente and reading him stories. Books are better. Cheers!
Go back to 3:33pm and read why government regulation has no relation to jobs moving out of state, or out of the country.
elliemae
2010 Apr 7, 11:43am
Little elliemae, otherwise known as the Queen of Hate, must be having a hard time drinking hers when it’s pointed out Obama hasn’t stopped torture.
No, not really. I do appreciate being called a Queen though. It's nice that you recognize how awesome I am, especially since you obviously are trying, really trying, to impress me. It appears that I have a lot of power - but that's what being a Queen is all about.
Go back to 3:33pm and read why government regulation has no relation to jobs moving out of state, or out of the country.
It sure seems to be important to you that we follow your instructions. I hope you have health insurance for the vessels you're popping in frustration when you can't get us to do as you say. And that you have no pre-existing conditions that might cause a denial of coverage. Oh, yea, that's right - healthcare reform has passed and that's not gonna be a problem for you.
You overestimate your impact & powers of persuasion.
What he said.
What other government scheme has caused at least 14 states to file lawsuits against it?
RayAmerica
2010 Apr 9, 5:54am
It's now up to 18 states suing the Federal Government ... with more to follow. Way to go Obama. You are proving to be quite the "uniter" afterall.
Yea, it looks like "Hope & Change" has turned into "Hope & Chains". Unfortunately for America, the worst is yet to come. They are known as unintended consequences - OOP's
So, you have a problem with new jobs being created and a source of revenue?
Elliemae, I have followed your posts for quite some time, and am generally impressed, but either you are being sarcastic or naive(which is it?) when you refer to these non-producing,taxpayer-dollar-sucking
"jobs' being created. These net-tax-sucking "jobs" are NOT a "source of revenue" - if anything, they are a drain on the economy.
elliemae
2010 Apr 9, 12:39pm
So, you have a problem with new jobs being created and a source of revenue?
Elliemae, I have followed your posts for quite some time, and am generally impressed, but either you are being sarcastic or naive(which is it?) when you refer to these non-producing,taxpayer-dollar-sucking
“jobs’ being created. These net-tax-sucking “jobs†are NOT a “source of revenue†- if anything, they are a drain on the economy.
I was being sarcastic (one of the many services that I offer). I didn't believe that 16,500 jobs were created by the bill and according to the non-partisan link provided somewhere above, it was a number pulled out of someone's ass to impress others politically. It's all about how you spin it these days, and not about whether it's good or bad. It's a sad state of affairs, and it's truly amazing that anything gets done these days.
"Being sarcastic, one of the many services that I offer"...being irrelevant must be another.
elliemae
2010 Apr 13, 3:12pm
“Being sarcastic, one of the many services that I offerâ€â€¦being irrelevant must be another.
Yea - you do offer us irrelevance. Glad ya recognize it.
"The modern liberal agenda of welfare statism and moral relativism are pathological distortions of normal social instincts." From - The Liberal Mind, The psychological causes of political madness by Dr. Rossiter.
Dr. Rossoter recieved his medical and psychiatric training at the University of Chicago. He is board certified in both general and forensic psychiarty and has diagnosed and treated MENTAL DISORDERS for more than 40 years. He has been retained by courts and private attorneys as a forensic psychiartist and has counsulted in more than 2,700 civil and criminal cases in both state and federal jurisdictions. His conclusion after 40 years of practice with mental disorders is that liberalism IS a mental disorder.
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010
EDITORIAL: Obamacare's federal police force
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
President Obama's nationalization of health care is bad enough on its own, but the plan's implementation will require drastic measures that are just as troubling to those who value freedom. Of particular concern is the bill's expansion of the Internal Revenue Service.
A report released last week by House Ways and Means Committee Republicans estimated that the dreaded agency's ranks would swell by 16,500. The newly sworn agents would be charged with ensuring the public's obedience to Mr. Obama's health care directives. The IRS also would enjoy the enhanced powers and budgetary authority required for monitoring the health care status of 300 million Americans on a month-to-month basis. The total cost of the effort is likely to exceed $10 billion.
The investigations will gradually ramp up until 2016, when the individual mandate tax kicks in fully. After that, if the O Force wins a second term, the unprecedented levy will fall upon citizens who fail to purchase health care coverage acceptable to Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. IRS agents would conduct the audits and impose a fine of either $2,085 or 2.5 percent of income - whichever is greater - on disobedient households. According to Congressional Budget Office figures, this tax will generate $17 billion by 2019.
Of course, not everyone will pay. The Democrats carved out exemptions for two of its favorite constituencies: illegal aliens and imprisoned criminals. Only law-abiding citizens will face the wrath of the IRS - a wrath that can be substantial.
Consider the case of Aaron Zeff, owner of Harv's Metro Car Wash in Sacramento, Calif. Mr. Zeff paid his taxes on time and did everything he was supposed to do. Nonetheless, a team of IRS agents descended on his business earlier this month. "They were deadly serious, very aggressive, very condescending," Mr. Zeff said in describing the incident to the Sacramento Bee. His crime? Mr. Zeff reportedly owed 4 cents on his taxes in 2006.
That's the type of overzealous enforcement and lousy customer service we can look forward to as IRS agents are handed more power to terrorize law-abiding Americans. The president's plan moves us in the wrong direction. We need to dismantle, not expand, the most hated agency of the federal government. Fundamental tax reform and repeal of Obamacare would go a long way toward restoring American freedoms.
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