Who Here Knew, You Had Tom Report any income increase
Mar 10, 2015 17:41:01 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2015 17:41:01 GMT -6
adjensen,
I really don't think I am over-reacting.
- Car insurance became required...but we don't HAVE to pay it. We could choose not to drive. If we drove against the law requiring it, then we took a positive action to warrant the active penalty (up to and including taking the car for Sheriff's auction, depending on where one lives). I'm fine with that, and so is the law, based on the fact you did have to engage in an activity of your own free will that had an additional requirement to do so.
- Taxes are required. However, we don't actually HAVE to pay those, either. If you feel strongly enough on the matter (and some actually do), then you can go off-the-grid and into a communal living situation or similar barter based micro economy. I can't name any communes in the United States off hand, but I am sure they exist in some form. They always have on the fringes. There, you can still be an American, and enjoy this society, but not pay or do that thing which positive action through earning or spending currency would demand.
- Clothes, to get downright colorful, but equally valid for legal thinking, are also required. Downright required by law, in all public places within the United States, but some few areas set aside specifically for those who choose to live sans fabric covering. There ya go though. You don't HAVE to buy clothes or wear them in your entire lifetime. You can't join others in public life, but you will not be in violation of anything, let alone endure penalties or legal sanction for not cooperating.
In all three examples, you DO have to do something or you do have to participate in something extra to come under the mandate of law to be forced into buying a product or taking other action, like paying a tax. Any tax.
With the PPACA, that has all changed and for the first time in this nation's history. I need take no action, and participate in any activity other than being a living human being and an American citizen to be subject to this tax and/or sanction. If I refuse to pay this tax, the IRS will use it's powers of enforcement to collect it. Those cover and include seizure of any and all property required to meet the outstanding amounts due.
The Supreme Court have found this is a tax. It can't be called anything more colorful, and a tax is a tax. If degrees even matter here, I can note the tax I pay by penalty of non-compliance isn't back breaking right now. Its a fraction of what people paying their dues into the PPACA structure are losing. How long will that low rate even last? We know the program, by design, graduates to higher penalties. How high might they go, as Obama realizes people like me WILL NOT COMPLY. Period.
So you see..it really is 3 simple choices. I can pay my sanction under law, I can die (of old age or whatever), or I can leave this nation (MAYBE...since tax status ties to Passport approval these days, too). There is nothing I can choose to simply not do, or participate in...except breathing...to avoid that legal sanction for non-compliance. Nothing else functions that way, in any way.
Its a stand taken on principle and 'a line too far', FAR more than anything about the dollars involved. Being taxed just to live in my native land is a line beyond which I won't go. Enough...has met Enough.
Tho, again, as the final ruling authority in the system I still choose to be a part of (and plan to remain in), the Super Court can ..and will soon.. rule on the core issues to make or utterly break this whole thing....and the legal ground is anything but clear on virtually any of the questions to be decided on active cases now.
I really don't think I am over-reacting.
- Car insurance became required...but we don't HAVE to pay it. We could choose not to drive. If we drove against the law requiring it, then we took a positive action to warrant the active penalty (up to and including taking the car for Sheriff's auction, depending on where one lives). I'm fine with that, and so is the law, based on the fact you did have to engage in an activity of your own free will that had an additional requirement to do so.
- Taxes are required. However, we don't actually HAVE to pay those, either. If you feel strongly enough on the matter (and some actually do), then you can go off-the-grid and into a communal living situation or similar barter based micro economy. I can't name any communes in the United States off hand, but I am sure they exist in some form. They always have on the fringes. There, you can still be an American, and enjoy this society, but not pay or do that thing which positive action through earning or spending currency would demand.
- Clothes, to get downright colorful, but equally valid for legal thinking, are also required. Downright required by law, in all public places within the United States, but some few areas set aside specifically for those who choose to live sans fabric covering. There ya go though. You don't HAVE to buy clothes or wear them in your entire lifetime. You can't join others in public life, but you will not be in violation of anything, let alone endure penalties or legal sanction for not cooperating.
In all three examples, you DO have to do something or you do have to participate in something extra to come under the mandate of law to be forced into buying a product or taking other action, like paying a tax. Any tax.
With the PPACA, that has all changed and for the first time in this nation's history. I need take no action, and participate in any activity other than being a living human being and an American citizen to be subject to this tax and/or sanction. If I refuse to pay this tax, the IRS will use it's powers of enforcement to collect it. Those cover and include seizure of any and all property required to meet the outstanding amounts due.
The Supreme Court have found this is a tax. It can't be called anything more colorful, and a tax is a tax. If degrees even matter here, I can note the tax I pay by penalty of non-compliance isn't back breaking right now. Its a fraction of what people paying their dues into the PPACA structure are losing. How long will that low rate even last? We know the program, by design, graduates to higher penalties. How high might they go, as Obama realizes people like me WILL NOT COMPLY. Period.
So you see..it really is 3 simple choices. I can pay my sanction under law, I can die (of old age or whatever), or I can leave this nation (MAYBE...since tax status ties to Passport approval these days, too). There is nothing I can choose to simply not do, or participate in...except breathing...to avoid that legal sanction for non-compliance. Nothing else functions that way, in any way.
Its a stand taken on principle and 'a line too far', FAR more than anything about the dollars involved. Being taxed just to live in my native land is a line beyond which I won't go. Enough...has met Enough.
Tho, again, as the final ruling authority in the system I still choose to be a part of (and plan to remain in), the Super Court can ..and will soon.. rule on the core issues to make or utterly break this whole thing....and the legal ground is anything but clear on virtually any of the questions to be decided on active cases now.