ObamaCare gives IRS a bigger role

Wed, 01/06/2010 - 1:35pm | posted by Jason Pye

Would you like the IRS to have a greater role?:

[ObamaCare] would require most Americans to have health insurance and to prove it on their federal tax returns. Those who don’t would pay a penalty to the IRS.
That’s one of several key duties the IRS would assume under the bills that have been approved by the House of Representatives and Senate and will be merged by negotiators from both chambers.

The agency also would distribute as much as $140 billion a year in new government subsidies to help small employers and as many as 19 million lower-income people buy coverage.

In addition, the IRS would collect hundreds of billions of dollars in new fees on employers, drug companies and device makers, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

If you fail to buy health insurance and don’t pay the fines associated with that, you will go to jail for one to five years. I don’t see how it is even remotely constitutional for the government to force citizens to buy a commodity like health insurance.