Thread: Buying something to avoid jail: bribery? Forcing someone to buy or go to
jail: extortion?
Started 4 months ago by begin_within
Please correct me if I am misunderstanding this. As I see it, Congress is now preparing to encourage Americans to bribe, by spending money to avoid jail time. At the same time Congress is threatening punishment (fines and jail time) if you don't buy it. Isn't that extortion? I'm all in favor of health care reform, in fact I support single payer at the federal level. But ...
Edited on Sun Nov-08-09 04:50 PM by emulatorloo
Worth reading if you haven't seen it: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/20 09/se... / POLITIFACT: Jail time for people who don't buy health insurance? By Louis Jacobson Published on Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 at 5:47 p.m. Will you go to jail if you don't get health insurance? Critics say it's a possibility, but we ...
They take you to the hospital, unconscious. They discover you have failed to get insurance, as required. You awaken to find you're handcuffed to the bed, and there's an insurance agent there to sell the policy that will buy your freedom. Crazy? Wait five years and see.
Time to give the 'Dracula stories' a rest. They will send the feeble-minded into a tizzy, and it'll be hell getting them to come out from under the bed. They can take their laptops under there, yunno, where they'll persist in scaring even more folks.
I have to pay more for insurance than my car is worth. I bought a $200 Cavalier when I got out of high school. I paid 10x more than that to have it "insured" for a year. Insured is in quotations because while they may call it insurance, I got absolutely no coverage. Welcome to the face of American insurance with no coverage.
I'm paying USAA something like $880 for insurance every year, and its blue book value is only like $2,500. Nuts. And I pay Blue Shield over $2,000 a year in premiums for what I think is bare-bones insurance.
H.R. 3962 provides that an individual (or a husband and wife in the case of a joint return) who does not, at any time during the taxable year, maintain acceptable health insurance coverage for himself or herself and each of his or her qualifying children is subject to an additional tax. If the government determines that the taxpayers unpaid tax liability results from willful behavior, the ...
every 6 months, and I assumed that was because my car is quite a bit less valuable now. I thought they would give me a bigger break because I have never filed a claim.
Edited on Sun Nov-08-09 04:50 PM by emulatorloo Worth reading if you haven't seen it: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/se... / POLITIFACT: Jail time for people who don't buy health insurance? By Louis Jacobson Published on Tuesday, September 29th, 2009 at 5:47 p.m. Will you go to jail if you don't get health insurance? Critics say it's a possibility, but we find the fears to be overblown. A subsidiary...
Time to give the 'Dracula stories' a rest. They will send the feeble-minded into a tizzy, and it'll be hell getting them to come out from under the bed. They can take their laptops under there, yunno, where they'll persist in scaring even more folks.
Ugh, campaign mail: donate now & get seats to the... Ugh, campaign mail: donate now & get seats to the Grant Park election rally! The way it's phrased sounds like bribery or extortion. Gross.
3:23 PM Nov 1st, 2008
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