Re: I singed up for Obamacare!

[Jax <remove.bear.bottoms1@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Bob La Londe" <none@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in news:l8skou$5k0$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:

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> "G. Morgan" <graham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Bob La Londe Wrote:
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>>>"JoeRaisin" <joeraisin2001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>>> On 12/14/2013 1:38 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:
>>>>> Have you thought about this.... One of the founding principals of
>>>>> America was that we wouldn't have the debtors prisons of Europe.
>>>>> You can not be thrown in jail for owing money you can't pay... but
>>>>> you can be thrown in jail for tax evasion.  So what if you still
>>>>> can't afford health insurance and you can't afford to pay the fine
>>>>> (that the Supreme court has said is a tax).  What are your choices?
>>>>> Federal prison for tax evasion or indentured servitude to the
>>>>> federal government?
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>>>> Heck, even if they don't put folks in jail, they will still be able
>>>> to create a whole bunch of new felons - felons who cannot own
>>>> firearms...
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>>>I considered that too.  It also reduces the jobs open to a person.
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>> I agree this is a potential outcome, but far from being a realistic
>> one. I know a guy that has owed the IRS over $100K for longer than 18
>> years. There has never been a threat by them to criminalize the debt.
>> He explained to me the difference between not paying and actual
>> "evasion" once, but I don't remember offhand and I don't want to throw
>> out an incorrect explanation.  It had something to do with "evasion"
>> being the intent of hiding from them (either on paper or physically).
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> I heard similar arguments when I was 4 years old about gun control in
> general.  Many of the things people told me would never happen because
> the American people wouldn't stand for it are happening.
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> Want to have some fun being paranoid look up glass roads and solar
> projects. For current technology its not practical, but it's
> foreseeable.  Now extrapolate from that.  An electrical grid made of the
> nations roads and highways.  Electric cars being charged by induction
> directly off the grid. Real time reporting of electrical usage to be
> directly debited from your bank account.  Since, driving on public roads
> has already been deemed a privilege and not a right then what legal
> precedent is there to prevent that from being used for total tracking of
> all vehicular movement of every vehicle in America?
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> Anyway, I think you are being a bit naïve if you don't think that gun
> grabbers and power mongers aren't thinking that way.

Good point Bob. I wouldn't be surprised if the NSA have already found a
way of tracking cars through their satnavs.   :(

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Jax