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The health insurance exchanges created by the Affordable Care Act opened for business on Tuesday, allowing uninsured Americans to buy subsidized coverage. By Wednesday, conservative websites had a fresh conspiracy theory running: if you decline to purchase health insurance, the feds may put a lien on your home.
InfoWars cites this Facebook post as proof:
I received an email tonight at 5:00 P.M. informing me that my fine would be $4,037 and could be attached to my yearly income tax return. Then you make it to the 'REPERCUSSIONS PORTION' for 'non-payment' of yearly fine. First, your drivers license will be suspended until paid, and if you go 24 consecutive months with 'Non-Payment' and you happen to be a home owner, you will have a federal tax lien placed on your home. You can agree to give your bank information so that they can easy 'Automatically withdraw' your 'penalties' weekly, bi-weekly or monthly! This by no means is 'Free' or even 'Affordable.'
The Affordable Care Act itself states that the IRS cannot file a lien on a property because an uninsured person fails to pay a penalty. Nor can it seize bank accounts or garnish paychecks to recover Obamacare fines. Nor will Americans who refuse to pay for mandatory health insurance be subject to criminal prosecution of any kind.
Infowars acknowledges all this, but concludes that the Facebook poster, Will Sheehan, still might be right: "Either Sheehans claim that he received this notice is a lie, or the feds have been dishonest with the American people all along, and the revolt against Obamacare is about to take 'don't tread on me' to a whole new level."
As Obamacare moves from legislation to reality, many of the old conspiracy theories making the chain email rounds will be laid to rest. It seems there will be no shortage of new tin foil hat tales to take their place.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/10/obamacare-conspiracy-theory-lien-house-debunked
Turbineguy
(37,332 posts)is designed to take away your guns. Everybody knows that.
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)He was a bloviating asshole 25 years ago and he's worse now.
alsame
(7,784 posts)from a right wing neighbor who watches Fox all day - she said there was an "Obamacare tax" when you sell your house.
I tried to assure her that was not coorect, but she was convinced it was true because they discussed it on Fox
subterranean
(3,427 posts)People with incomes over $200,000 ($250,000 for a couple filing jointly) AND capital gains from their home sale will be subject to a 3.8% tax on the portion of gains ABOVE $250,000, or $500,000 for a couple. So if a couple makes more than $250,000 and sells their home for a profit of $1,000,000, they will have to pay a tax a $19,000.
People hear about rules like this that affect only a handful of the very wealthy, and think they will apply to everyone. I'm sure FOX "News" does nothing to discourage such misconceptions.
Source:
http://www.factcheck.org/2010/04/a-38-percent-sales-tax-on-your-home/
alsame
(7,784 posts)apply to my neighbor.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,996 posts)Aristus
(66,379 posts)After all, they are full of shit...
Avalux
(35,015 posts)Playinghardball
(11,665 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Assuming he's a real person.
struggle4progress
(118,285 posts)What if the electoral-magmatic field of the planets becomes misaligned and Jupiter crashes into the Great Pyramid, releasing swarms of undead Egyptian mummies who roam the earth to eat our brains?