Republican weather-vane Michele Bachmann (R-MN), has found her latest raging-storm aftermath, to go looting through.
Afterall if the window is blown open, who's to say WHAT put that big-screen TV there. "Finders, Keepers, right GOP?"
Beside Sarah P certainly won't mind, if Michele B picks up where the Palin crazy-train left off. Imitation is the most sincere form of lunacy.
Michele Bachmann: The IRS Will Kill People Through Obamacare
by Sy Mukherjee, thinkprogress.org -- May 15, 2013
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While right-wing commentators and politicians are already using the incident to smear the health law by raising questions about IRS access to Americans’ private medical data, Bachmann took things one step further:
Since the IRS also is the chief enforcer of Obamacare requirements, [Bachmann] asked whether the IRS’s admission means it “will deny or delay access to health care” for conservatives.
At this point, she said, that “is a reasonable question to ask.” […]
[S]hould Americans fear their government may try to harm them if they are conservative?
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[madtoons]
Or using more Palen-like words, for connecting the dots in Bachmann's brainstorm, I image that conversation goes something like this:
Well, don't you see, the IRS is filled with Obama's socialist drones, that we now know, hate Conservative; And Obamacare needs IRS data to ration out its Health Care; therefore the IRS will be the new Death Panels that will deny Conservatives their God-given Health Care.
Quid, pro, quo!
Giving regular workers affordable Health Care -- will mean the end of Insurance-rationed Care as we know it!
Uh oh. The normal conservative-looters aren't going to like this
extra helping of health care hyperbole, are they? They were planning to take the more subtle insidious route to get their IRS zealotry to blow-down the ACA.
Ooops!
If only logical-training could be doled out in college-courses, as easily as Luntz emails his talking points; if only Congresspersons were required to take them (ie. the courses).
Maybe then we wouldn't have to debunk every A+D+Z conclusion, that Intelligence Committee member Bachmann might come up with.
Republicans Seize On IRS Scandal To Smear Obamacare
by Sy Mukherjee, thinkprogress.org -- May 14, 2013
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A mere four days after news broke that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had improperly targeted conservative political groups for scrutiny, GOP Sen. Dean Heller (NV) is threatening to introduce legislation that would “deny the IRS funds to hire new agents to implement Obamacare.” The bill would effectively make it impossible for the agency to provide millions of Americans with federal subsidies to buy the very health coverage they are required to have under the law.
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This is a reduction to the absurd. The IRS has been collecting health care taxes and compliance information from employers for decades. In fact, it has to, seeing as most Americans receive their insurance through their employer and the employer health insurance tax credit is the single largest tax credit in the federal budget.
In other words in Bachmann-world, the IRS is competent enough to approve
Corporate Tax Write-offs -- just not competent enough to calculate conservative's AGI incomes.
Next, is the more 'subtle' approach to linking the IRS with the Bill Republicans love to hate. It's arguments seem to revolve around the necessary staffing and training -- rather the 'evil intent' of an army of socialist drones out to get you ... Welcome to the Land of Insurers, Michele.
When It Comes to Health-Care Reform, the IRS Rules
by Mark Koba, Senior Editor, CNBC -- 6 May 2013
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As a result, the agency [IRS] has to administer 47 tax provisions under Obamacare. They include the right to levy a penalty against businesses and individuals who don't provide or acquire insurance. Noting that the IRS will collect the penalties, the decision labeled them a tax.
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What the IRS can actually enforce also seems a difficult question.
The law severely limits the agency's ability to collect penalties. It can ask for the money, but there are no civil or criminal penalties for refusing to pay it. The IRS cannot seize bank accounts or dock wages to collect it. No interest accumulates for unpaid penalties.The law allows the IRS to withhold tax refunds to collect the penalty but only if someone overpaid taxes.
And the IRS is still working on procedures for taxpayers to prove they have insurance.[...]
With howling concerns like that, you can see why they want to 'head for the storm cellars,' and batten down the hatches all around the town of
Sore-Loserville.
With all the repeated attempts (~40) of the Republicans to Repeal Obamacare, it kind of makes you wonder if Republicans even understand how the Supreme Court works (since they approved Obamacare). Funny I don't remember the GOP-losers clamoring to "Repeal the George W Bush Supreme Court 'selection'" every chance they could, back in 2000 !?
If only the still-grounded rational folks in Congress could figure out how to "Repeal the Stupid!"
If only could, We the People. Because that raging-republican-storm of lunacy shows no sign of letting up, anytime soon.