No Healthcare, we keep YOUR money

From The Daily Caller:

Individuals who don't purchase health insurance may lose their tax refunds according to IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman. After acknowledging the recently passed health-care bill limits the agency's options for enforcing the individual mandate, Shulman told reporters that the most likely way to penalize individuals that don't comply is by reducing or confiscating their tax refunds.

Speaking at the National Press Club on Monday, Shulman downplayed the IRS's role in enforcing the recent overhaul of the health insurance industry by claiming the agency would not aggressively target individuals who don't purchase coverage. He noted that the health-care bill expressly forbids the agency from freezing bank accounts, seizing assets or pursuing criminal charges, but when pressed said the IRS would most likely use tax refund offsets to penalize those that don't comply with the mandate. The IRS uses refund offsets to collect from individuals that owe the federal government a delinquent debt. [emphasis added]


So if we don't purchase a product from a private company then we are forced to surrender our incomes to the government? That's not at all fascism dictated by a private entity. This whole plan is fucked from so many different angles I don't even know where to begin picking it apart. "Health care reform" was never about health care and never about reform; it's been about acquisition of power from day one. Why else would the government leverage your income tax refund (the income tax being a whole other ball of failures) in order to FORCE you to buy a private product? If someone can point out anywhere in the Constitution that government is given the authority to mandate the purchase of certain private goods then I will send you a dollar.