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House Committee Threatens to Subpoena Documents Related to IRS’s Illegal ObamaCare Taxes
Last Friday, House Oversight Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R-CA) and colleagues sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Douglas Shulman accusing Treasury of “either willfully misleading the Committee or…purposefully withholding information that is essential to the Committee’s oversight effort.”
As Jonathan Adler and I document in our forthcoming Health Matrix article, “Taxation Without Representation: The Illegal IRS Rule to Expand Tax Credits Under the PPACA,” the IRS has announced it will impose ObamaCare’s taxes on employers and individuals whom Congress expressly exempted from those taxes, and will send potentially hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to private health insurance companies, also contrary to the plain language of the statute. Oklahoma attorney general Scott Pruitt has filed a legal challenge to the IRS rule that imposes those illegal taxes.
On August 20, the committee sent IRS commissioner Shulman a letter requesting “all legal analysis, internal or external, conducted by the IRS which authorizes IRS to grant premium-assistance tax credits in federal Exchanges,” and “all documents and communications between IRS employees and employees of the White House Executive Office of the President or any other federal agency or department referring or relating to the proposed IRS rule or final IRS rule.”
Jerry Manderin
October 24th, 2012
Geithner and Carney are the first ones getting their asses kicked on the playground when they become private citizens.
MADJACK
October 24th, 2012
The American version of the Gestapo continues unabated and out of control.
So who exactly does Obamacare apply to?
Certainly not the 47%.
AbigailAdams
October 24th, 2012
I’m sick of reading about the OC “threatening” this and that. Why don’t they just go ahead and get the docs already?! It’s their job to do so. Oversight is oversight, not a kangaroo court for show. They owe it to us to do their job, it’s what we’re paying (dearly) for every workday.
Mr.Gates
October 24th, 2012
Why threaten? Just F’n do it.
RANDO
October 24th, 2012
Do it, Darrel. You’ll feel better, I’ll feel better, and the whole country will be better off.
Might piss off a few commies too, so it’s a winner all around!
muddjuice (Absolutist)
October 24th, 2012
Stop threatening. Do it already!!!!
danny g
October 25th, 2012
exactly .. threaten?? wtf
why is it that only ISSA, Grassley, and jason Chafetz and sometimes Bachmann are the only ones doing anything to try to save this once great country… LOVE DeMint but he’s been NOwhere for months