Section 431(a) of the bill says that the IRS must divulge taxpayer identity information, including the filing status, the modified adjusted gross income, the number of dependents, and “other information as is prescribed by” regulation. That information will be provided to the new Health Choices Commissioner and state health programs and used to determine who qualifies for “affordability credits.”
Section 245(b)(2)(A) says the IRS must divulge tax return details — there’s no specified limit on what’s available or unavailable — to the Health Choices Commissioner. The purpose, again, is to verify “affordability credits.”
Section 1801(a) says that the Social Security Administration can obtain tax return data on anyone who may be eligible for a “low-income prescription drug subsidy” but has not applied for it.
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“Affordability credits!” Why not just issue affordability credits to American citizens who do not have health insurance and let the rest of us keep what remains of our liberty and rights??!!
Well, I’m not worried about Obamacare knowing everything about me at all.
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How long before this information gets leaked, ala Joe the Plumber?
Not that I like big brother… but
doesn’t the IRS have to share data with other agencies?
Oh, now the IRS leaked information about Joe the plumber? No.
This will never happen. If they loose control of the confidentiality of the tax returns and the information is leaked to the public. The unwashed masses will storm the castle with torches and pitchforks? Can you imagine looking up the politicians returns and finding that you joe six pack are paying more, comparativity, in income taxes that people like Daschel, Reed, Pelosi, Ranglel all of Obama’s staff.
Good post on this here
IRS The New Health Care Enforcer
Mike, I believe they are already doing the same type of thing with Disability and other programs, and those folks have to reapply on a regular basis and declare earnings, ect,. If the records at some point show that the income and info has been misrepresented or you have been deceptive, then that is called fraud.
If you are drawing unemployment, they also ask plenty of questions and get info about you and your income. Same thing if you are misrepresenting your income to draw a check….
Maybe the sections you cited above are for the purpose of not wasting tax dollars on fraud and other misrepresentations. The government has been cross checking other programs like that for years and years, and I haven’t heard folks making a big issue out of those….
The Nazis are at it again. Let us exercise out freedom of speech. Stop trampling on the Constitution!
PHOENIX – Sen. John McCain met with an angry crowd at a town-hall meeting about health care reform Wednesday, sometimes having to fight to talk and telling one woman who wouldn’t stop yelling that she had to leave.
The Arizona senator hadn’t yet opened up the meeting at McCain’s central Phoenix church to questions when one audience member continuously yelled over him.
“You’re going to have to stop or you’re going to have to leave,” McCain told the woman. When security guards approached to escort her out, he told her “Goodbye, see ya” to a round of applause.
After McCain opened it up to questioning, one man angrily pointed at him and asked the senator why he deserves a better health care plan than him.
“I’m trying to get it for you,” McCain told him. “We’ll do it for you. We’ll make it affordable and available to you.”
Other audience members in the crowd of 2,000 told McCain about their medical problems, such as HIV and multiple sclerosis.
McCain urged them he would fight for health care reform but reiterated his opposition to President Barack Obama’s plan to create a government option to compete with private insurers, arguing that it would be the eventual end of private insurers in the U.S.
Obama and most Democrats say a government option would serve to balance the power of private insurers. But insurance companies see it as a step toward a government takeover, and many business groups agree.
When McCain was trying to answer questions from reporters after the town hall, one audience member yelled at him that he gets hundreds of thousands of dollars from insurance companies every year.
In a voice of feigned surprise, McCain said “Really? I didn’t know that.”
“There’s more interest and involvement in this issue than I’ve ever seen in many years on a domestic issue,” McCain said afterward. “There’s obviously strong feeling and emotions on this issue and I think the town-hall meetings are a very important way to get people’s viewpoints and allow them to deal directly with their elected representative.”
The Democratic plan has repeatedly run into problems at such meetings. Throughout August, unruly opponents have tried to shout down lawmakers at local town hall meetings.
McCain also spoke against the proposal at a much more subdued town-hall meeting Tuesday in the retirement community of Sun City, a suburb of Phoenix.
McCain canceled a Friday trip to Flagstaff so he can attend services for longtime colleague Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who died Tuesday night.
Thanks to Obama I have very little taxable income. I lost half my savings in this debacle just like millions of our citizens. Obama is in a world of hurt (or rather our coun try is) next tax season when the revenues of the federal govenment shoot down drastically because of jobs lost and savings lost. Maybe then we can stop giving money to every tin horn country in the world who really hate our guts and work against us on the sly.