Reform Unraveling to Reveal Naked Tyranny

Add to everything you will read below the fact that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) knows they can’t pass any reform bill as it currently stands in the senate.  So what are they going to do?  They have a plan to squeak out votes in two committees to say that it passed in the senate, then they will package the bill as an amendment to a house bill that has not yet come up for a vote in the senate.

They are going to secretly attach health care reform in its entirety as a rider to a totally unrelated bill.  By doing so, they will control an additional 17% of the economy above and beyond the percentage they took over with the banks and auto industry.

Obama’s “promise” not to raise taxes?  To borrow the democrats own phrase from the campaign, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.  All of the fees and fines that they don’t call taxes will be mandatory, which makes them a tax.  Oh, by the way, did you notice who the primary enforcement agent for this coup will be?  The IRS.  Now tell me there are no new taxes.

The democrats know they are now likely to lose big next November.  With that knowledge, they are trying to gain as much control, to do as much damage, to drive America as far to the left as they can in the time they have left.  They are unresponsive to the American people to whom they are supposed to answer.  It’s time to make them listen, to make them answer, to make them comply with the wishes of their electorate, or be removed.  My be is that the liberal courts will declare null and void any attempt to remove them by recall election or other legal apparatus in place in the states.  So, what will it take to remove these tyrants?  It may take something much uglier than most Americans are willing to undertake.  I can’t even mention it lest the government accuse me of inciting violence.

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Reform Unraveling

Posted 09/28/2009 07:12 PM ET

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Tyranny: What kind of country would imprison citizens who felt it was in their best interest not to purchase health care insurance? We may soon find out.

Sen. John Ensign, a Nevada Republican, got an interesting handwritten note last week from the chief of staff of Congress’ Joint Committee on Taxation. Tom Barthold told Ensign that an American who did not buy health care insurance or pay the fee — up to $1,900 — that is required from those who opt out would find themselves in deep trouble with the government.

“Violators could be charged with a misdemeanor and could face up to a year in jail or a $25,000 penalty, Barthold wrote on JCT letterhead,” Politico reported.

Ensign was initially asking questions about the penalty that would be assessed anyone who did not buy medical insurance as mandated if the Baucus bill becomes law.

He wanted to know if the fine — originally $3,800 for a family but dropped to $1,900 after sharp GOP criticism — was a tax hike.

Barthold told Ensign the IRS would indeed “take you to court and undertake normal collection proceedings” if the fee wasn’t paid.

Tax hikes for failing to buy insurance? Sent to a federal prison for disobeying the government’s orders?

Don’t think that it could never happen here, because law-abiding citizens who have harmed no one are already being arrested for doing nothing more than living their lives.

Consider the Indiana grandmother arrested in July, four months after buying two boxes of cold medicine in less than a week. She ran afoul of a state law that prohibits the purchase of more than three grams of pseudoephedrine by one person in a seven-day period.

Reports say Sally Harpold was simply buying Zyrtec-D and Mucinex-D for her husband and daughter, not to make or help anyone else make methamphetamine, an activity policymakers were trying to shut down when they passed the law. Yet she was arrested, handcuffed and booked anyway.

If a grandmother trying to take care of her family is treated this way, imagine how citizens who refuse to participate in a government takeover of health care would be dealt with.

With such stories being uncovered on a regular basis, no wonder public support for a health care overhaul has hit a new low. Rasmussen now has 41% in favor vs. 43% just a week ago.

Stories about locking up people who don’t wish to be forced into the system, and reports that, yes, the Democrats do want subsidized health care for illegal aliens aren’t exactly rallying Americans behind the congressional majority’s idea of reform.

The more the public knows about the proposed plans, the less it likes what Washington is offering. Yet the Democrats have become even more determined to get their legislation through.

In fact, it’s starting to appear as if the stronger the opposition becomes, the harder the Democrats work on their plans. It’s as if they are legislating out of spite against citizens who must be governed by a heavy hand because they don’t know what’s good for them.

But we’ve heard that before. Just last week, Energy Secretary Steven Chu likened Americans to “teenage kids” who “aren’t acting in a way that they should act” in regard to carbon emissions.

One has to wonder whom he wants to throw in prison.