They're throwing everything at HCR in hopes that something sinks in.
First they talked about thousands of "armed IRS agents" enforcing the new HCR order, all singing the same tune that the bill doesn't provide for new doctors (it actually does) but for new tax agents who will jail anyone not falling in line.
Bachman I just found out, for instance, the IRS will be the enforcer for this government takeover of health care. Every month, 16,500 new IRS agents will be hired at a cost of $10 billion. Every month, IRS agents will verify the 300 million Americans have purchased health care acceptable to government. They'll also be verifying that employers have insurance that's acceptable to government. And the IRS can now share confidential taxpayer information with Department of Health and Human Services.
And if the American people or employers don't comply with what the IRS want, they have the power, Glenn, to levy fines of 2 percent of a person's income or over $2,000, whichever is greater. This should make the hair stand up on the back of people's necks to realize that now, it's up to the IRS to enforce this health care bill.
Now they changed their story...
the IRS will have no means of enforcing this law making poor IRS agents powerless, I kid you not according to their revised story, the fictitious IRS agents will not be able to jail people, there is actually no money in the bill for the IRS to hire any new agent according to them.
It will cost the IRS $5 billion to $10 billion over 10 years to handle the new workload, according to a March 11 estimate by the Congressional Budget Office. But the Senate bill doesn’t provide any funding for the expansion of the IRS, and it virtually ties the hands of the IRS...
"The use of liens and seizures otherwise authorized for collection of taxes does not apply to the collection of this penalty," according to the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation. "Non-compliance with the personal responsibility requirement to have health coverage is not subject to criminal or civil penalties under the code and interest does not accrue for failure to pay such assessments in a timely manner."
That means there’s virtually nothing the IRS can do to enforce the fines in the legislation, forcing the tax man to rely on the consciences of taxpayers...