In the end, Simas didn’t have an answer either. So let me take a crack at it. Those who don’t buy insurance won’t have to pay the penalty on Jan. 1 or March 15 — or ever. As Keith Speights of The Motley Fool explains, the Affordable Care Act includes no provision whereby the IRS can enforce collection of the penalties.

There are mechanisms by which the tax agency can collect the nuisance tax — for example, by subtracting the monies from a refund or through taxes withheld by an employer. Beyond that:

[It] can’t press criminal charges or assess further financial penalties for not paying. The IRS also can’t place a lien on property as it can when seeking payment of overdue taxes.




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Now I understand the idiotic brosurance ad

They really need the stupid to stay afloat

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In the end, Simas didn’t have an answer either. So let me take a crack at it. Those who don’t buy insurance won’t have to pay the penalty on Jan. 1 or March 15 — or ever. As Keith Speights of The Motley Fool explains, the Affordable Care Act includes no provision whereby the IRS can enforce collection of the penalties.

There are mechanisms by which the tax agency can collect the nuisance tax — for example, by subtracting the monies from a refund or through taxes withheld by an employer. Beyond that:

[It] can’t press criminal charges or assess further financial penalties for not paying. The IRS also can’t place a lien on property as it can when seeking payment of overdue taxes.

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In the end, Simas didn’t have an answer either. So let me take a crack at it. Those who don’t buy insurance won’t have to pay the penalty on Jan. 1 or March 15 — or ever. As Keith Speights of The Motley Fool explains, the Affordable Care Act includes no provision whereby the IRS can enforce collection of the penalties.

There are mechanisms by which the tax agency can collect the nuisance tax — for example, by subtracting the monies from a refund or through taxes withheld by an employer. Beyond that:

[It] can’t press criminal charges or assess further financial penalties for not paying. The IRS also can’t place a lien on property as it can when seeking payment of overdue taxes.

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John Roberts, in his ultra-conservative Obamacare decision, all but screamed that by defining the penalties as taxes that should be the route to ridding us of it.

Comprende?

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In the end, Simas didn’t have an answer either. So let me take a crack at it. Those who don’t buy insurance won’t have to pay the penalty on Jan. 1 or March 15 — or ever. As Keith Speights of The Motley Fool explains, the Affordable Care Act includes no provision whereby the IRS can enforce collection of the penalties.

There are mechanisms by which the tax agency can collect the nuisance tax — for example, by subtracting the monies from a refund or through taxes withheld by an employer. Beyond that:

[It] can’t press criminal charges or assess further financial penalties for not paying. The IRS also can’t place a lien on property as it can when seeking payment of overdue taxes.

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John Roberts, in his ultra-conservative Obamacare decision, all but screamed that by defining the penalties as taxes that should be the route to ridding us of it.

Comprende?

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George Will got it, and he's a freakin' moron

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