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Joint Committee on Taxation Chief of Staff Tom Barthold
- Item: During last Sunday's television blitz, Obama
forcefully objected to statements that the mandate to buy health
insurance was a tax increase. (watch).
- Item: Under questioning from Sen. John Ensign (R-Nev.), Barthold said the IRS
would "take you to court and undertake normal collection proceedings."
- Item: This
wasn't persuasive to the committee -- which rejected an amendment from
Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) to eliminate the individual mandate (Sen. Olympia Snowe voting with Democrats to keep the mandate).
- Item, Ensign asked for and received a handwritten memo from Barthold (copied above)
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PS. In addition ...
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tax. but failure to file can cost you an additional $100,000 fine
and 5 years in prison for tax evasion. So what is it, Mr. Zero? Are you a liar, or grossly unprepared and incompetent? Or both? Ball's in your court.
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