| | Of course, it shouldn't be imposed at all.
It seems to me that all of these new taxes and penalties are being set up in ways that no individual can easily reject them. The insurance companies are being taxed, so those costs will be passed on in their premiums. The individual beneficiary has nothing specific they can refuse to pay to the government.
Likewise, the so-called penalties for refusing to purchase insurance look like they will be assessed on individual's tax returns. Therefore those who might otherwise withhold payment, may instead have it simply withheld from them.
I think they are making an effort to bury these taxes and penalties deep enough into the costs so as to prevent any concerted public effort at 'civil disobedience'.
jt
|
|
This isn't legislation—it's a suicide bombing. The Democrats are willing to blow themselves up, so long as they can take private, for-profit health care down with them. 
