Good news..a half billion dollars to create jobs...the bad news....

[WillowTree]

I remember the Good Old Days when Justice really was blind.

Now, its 5-4, right down party lines.

Just like President Obama said.

and, guess what - the Republicans are just fine with this. If it were the other way around, if there were more libs on the bench, they'd be screeching their FOOL heads off. But really, they don't care - as long as the wealthy win and the rest of us lose everything we have or ever hope to have.

Stupid goddamn "low effort thinkers" just do as they're told.

Elections have consequences..

 

[Greenbeard]

The IRS is an enforcement agency that collects taxes. They have no interest in affordability.

~1/2 of spending under the ACA is on an advanceable, refundable tax credit (i.e. the premium assistance credit) for people buying individual health plans in an exchange. The IRS is responsible for verifying eligibility, determining the size of the credit a person or family is eligible for, and paying it, which they'll be doing primarily through a newly designed federal data services hub.

Hence the heavy emphasis, already pointed out by someone above, on building IT infrastructure.

 

[Liberty]

 

[Jackson]

it's to hire IRS agents to enforce the individual mandate..which will likely go down in flames.

"They’ll all be IRS enforcers for a law that has a pretty good chance of getting mooted in the next few months:

The Obama administration is quietly diverting roughly $500 million to the IRS to help implement the president’s healthcare law.
The money is only part of the IRS’s total implementation spending, and it is being provided outside the normal appropriations process. The tax agency is responsible for several key provisions of the new law, including the unpopular individual mandate.
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Not just including the individual mandate — it’s almost entirely for enforcing the individual mandate. Most of the taxes included in the ObamaCare bill have already gone into effect. While a few remain to be triggered, the new efforts for which the IRS must prepare have to do almost exclusively with enforcing the mandate and distributing subsidies for taxpayers to spend to comply with it."

Great news: Obama diverting a half-billion dollars to the IRS for ObamaCare enforcement « Hot Air

The Affordable Care Act is chock full of appropriations to pay for the various elements in it.

Here is one example:



And here is where it is that program is paid for:




Here is another example:



How much that program gets:

APPROPRIATION.—For the purpose of carrying out this section, there is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $75,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2010 through 2014. Amounts appropriated under this subsection
shall remain available until expended.

And IF the Individual MANDATE dies? The whole thing is shot to HELL...no way to pay for it but to ROB from other entitlements.

We simply can not afford it!

 

[BreezeWood]

Good news..a half billion dollars to create jobs... the bad news.... it's to hire IRS agents to enforce the individual mandate.

... the bad news

only if you believe a free ride for some deserves USSC protection from those who pay for the same service.