House Democrats Plan To Tax The Uninsured Making As Little As $44,000/Year

Proof • July 15, 2009

Which isn’t exactly something you’re going to hear them mention during a speech, and you certainly can’t count on anyone interviewing them to dare ask this question:

As expected, the House bill would mandate that individuals and families have or buy health insurance.
But what if they don’t buy it?
Then Section 401 kicks in. Any individual (or family) that does not have health insurance would have to pay a new tax, roughly equal to the smaller of 2.5% of your income or the cost of a health insurance plan. …
I assume the bill authors would respond, “But why wouldn’t you want insurance? After all, we’re subsidizing it for everyone up to 400% of the poverty line.”
That is true. But if you’re a single person with income of $44,000 or higher, then you’re above 400% of the poverty line. You would not be subsidized, but would face the punitive tax if you didn’t get health insurance. This bill leaves an important gap between the subsidies and the cost of health insurance. CBO says that for about eight million people, that gap is too big to close, and they would get stuck paying higher taxes and still without health insurance.

So if you’re poor and uninsured you get taxpayer subsidized government health care. If you’re rich, you can buy any health care you want. But if you’re not poor and not rich and don’t have insurance, you pay taxes.
Why anyone would think this is an improvement over the current way of doing things, which is admittedly flawed, is beyond me.

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http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

Well who should they tax besides people that don’t have insurance. They’re the problem here.

A large number of the so-called forty seven million who don’t have insurance are eligible for government programs out there. They just don’t want to bother to sign up.

IF it matters so little to them why must we all pay for them?
bill-tb

Democrats lie, not a new discovery.

Even the WashPost has gone off the bridge, you can’t pay for all this by taxing the rich.
http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

You’re subhuman garbage.

More projection than a multiplex!
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

Boy the Dems are really going out of their way to screw people. Comeon DINO you sock puppet lets hear how it’s the Republicans fault and that the Cons are the reason we have to have socialized medicine.
Brent

“If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until it’s free.”
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

2.5% is a small price to pay for health care. They still have the option of paying for it themselves, probably from the government plan. If they don’t, they pay. That way, when they go to the emergency room for treatment, the rest of us don’t pay for it alone.

There’s really no plan you awful people will support until you are in need. See my post on another thread which describes what the middle and upper classes do to pay for nursing home care. Probably many of you. At least one of you admits it.
Buzz

House Democrats Plan To Tax The Uninsured Making As Little As $44,000/Year

I see why you guys are so bent over this bill. That is all you scabs make a year.
http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

Again, it should be pointed out…

Everytime the effects of a liberal polkicy hurt the poor or middle class, none of the liberals care.

To someone making 44k a year, who is in the 25% bracket, paying 6.35% to SS, another 1.25 to medicare, whatever in state taxes, property taxes, city taxes, another 2.5% IS a big deal.

Liberal compassion at its finest.
Bat One

More taxes on the productive from the same fiscal illiterates who promised “… not one dime!” And in the middle of “the worst recession since The Great Depression” too.

Obama’s lack of honesty would be bad enough… or should be. But his lack of knowledge, lack of judgment, and abject fiscal haplessness are even worse
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

But it is you wealth-worshipping toadies who viciously protect the rich from taxation.

After all, they create the jobs. Isn’t that what you stems like to say?
brain trust

Dino you twit, you wouldn’t know the truth if it hit between the eyes. How many people on welfare hire people to work for them? It is the rich that create, expand and invest in businesses that hire people. Now the dems want to take money from the rish to subsidize health care for people who don’t neccessarily want it or can afford it themselves. 54 billion a year taken from these businessmen, 54 billion that could go toward hiring more people and more than likely provide them with health insurance. Capitalism is the answer.
Bat One

Aah, the irony!

I mention lack of honesty, lack of knowledge, lack of judgment, and abject fiscal haplessness, and right on cue, there’s Dino!
http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

Mention that a 2.5% increase hits people who make 44k a year hard and Dino bitches about the rich.

Imbecile.
SigFan

I would be willing to bet that Dino (if there really is a Dino individual) is all hot for nationalized health care because he/she/it doesn’t have insurance and due to his/her/it’s lifestyle is uninsurable. As if the nanny-state will cover people whose lifestyle leads to an elevated risk of death.

And WTF does anyone being rich have to do with a 2.5% penalty on those earning $44K?
http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

There are no Obama supporters here answering for their LIES about not raising taxes on those making less than $250,000 a year. Or $200,000. Or $150,000. Whatever the lie was.

For all the compassion they supposedly have, none of them care about the extra money taken out of the hands of the average American as a direct result of what they supported. It’s not about the little guy, and it never has been. Liberals don’t care about anything or anyone other than their guys in power.
http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

There are no Obama supporters here answering for their LIES about not raising taxes on those making less than $250,000 a year. Or $200,000. Or $150,000. Whatever the lie was.

Why aren’t they answering for their lies? They act as if it doesn’t even matter. Since they’re such big-mouthed liars, why in the world would we entrust them with our health care?
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

DINO the sock puppet said: But it is you wealth-worshipping toadies who viciously protect the rich from taxation.

After all, they create the jobs. Isn’t that what you stems like to say?

Hey Dumb ass we live in a capitalistic society, the rich that loath are the ones that pay everyone salaries you vile moronic ass clown. If tax the rich you are going to send more business to China and India, but that ok then you will have more time to blog in your mother’s basement you piece of dog excrement.
http://ndgoon.blogspot.com/ goon

Kenny said: For all the compassion they supposedly have, none of them care about the extra money taken out of the hands of the average American as a direct result of what they supported. It’s not about the little guy, and it never has been. Liberals don’t care about anything or anyone other than their guys in power.

Kenny it is about reditribution and paying back allies it has nothing to do about empathy or caring for anyone but the ruling elite.
RJ Richards

If this was a hockey game:

Goon: Hat Trick
Dino: Siv, siv, siv…
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

Obama is going to make this happen.

He’ll roll right over you.
brain trust

I hope he fails!
pparets

You’re subhuman garbage.

Subhuman garbage would be the mayor of Portland seducing boys and the homosexual deviants who defend him.

Has he been indicted yet?

parasite STD
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

Of course you do. You’re subhuman garbage.

You probably have relatives in nursing homes on Medicaid while you bitch about people getting benefits from the collective society.
http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

Get cancer, wait in line.

Hey, what’s one out of two people dying by breast cancer? No big deal. It’s much better than that evil “profit driven” system in America where only one out of four die.

Welcome to the left’s “reality based” creation.
Ozcar

Obama is going to make this happen.

You’re probably correct. He/congress still does not have the authority, under the constitution (that they all swore an oath to uphold and defend), to do this.
Hannitized

Hey…if you didn’t have hybperbole Liqwid, you would have nothing to say at all.
http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

Hey…if you didn’t have hybperbole Liqwid, you would have nothing to say at all.

It’s not hyperbole.

That’s the view we can’t help but get that you guys support from sickening comments like Dinos.
http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

“Hannitized” – Hey…if you didn’t have hybperbole Liqwid, you would have nothing to say at all.

It wasn’t hyperbole.

Buzz off, troll.

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