{"id":11028,"date":"2013-10-28T16:40:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T16:40:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-10-28T16:40:59","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T16:40:59","slug":"politico_rush_is_right_on_obamacare_tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2013\/10\/28\/politico_rush_is_right_on_obamacare_tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Politico: Rush is Right on Obamacare Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: Last week, ladies and gentlemen, I shared with you a little tidbit that was leaked to me<\/a>, if you will, by an accountant. And what I pointed out was — and, by the way, at RushLimbaugh.com we linked to a similar story at PowerLine,<\/a> which had apparently found the same thing. There was a little paragraph from the joint taxation committee or some such thing, and it pointed out — and I made a big hullabaloo about this last week — that the Obamacare law specifically says that the IRS cannot attach liens or garnish wages in order to collect money from you or anybody else in the form of a tax or a fine for not having Obamacare. That they must get that money from your tax refund, and if you don\u2019t have a tax refund then there is nothing mandating that you buy Obamacare insurance, and there is nothing mandating that you pay a fine. <\/p>\n

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So, in other words, according to Obamacare itself, there is no mandate. The Obamacare law itself specifies that you cannot have a lien placed or garnishes on your income, bank account, wages, what have you, to pay the fine or tax for not having an insurance plan under Obamacare. And if that\u2019s the case, there\u2019s no mandate. Well, there were several Drive-By news media sites that ridiculed me, as usual, and made fun and said that I was launching into something and I didn\u2019t know what I was talking about<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Lo and behold, The Politico, “Rush Limbaugh\u2019s Guide to Dodging Obamacare Tax Penalty.” And they say that I\u2019m right. “Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh says he\u00c2\u2019s discovered a sure-fire way to skirt Obamacare\u00c2\u2019s penalties for failing to obtain health coverage next year — but you\u00c2\u2019d have to give up a fat tax refund. … What Mr. Limbaugh said hinges entirely on people doing their taxes so they don\u2019t get a refund, which is the way to go, even apart from beating the Obamacare tax.”<\/p>\n

It really is, but I know most people are gonna continue to arrange themselves so they get a refund because they like that big lump sum of money every spring. But from a strictly economic financial standpoint, it\u2019s not the wisest thing you could do, because that\u2019s just your money anyway that you have paid. It\u2019s money that you do not owe, that you\u2019ve paid via withholding over the year, and when you file your return, the overpayment is calculated and here comes your refund, but without any interest, without any penalties. So you\u2019ve given your money away for a year for the government to use, and then they theoretically give it back to you.<\/p>\n

I remember when I worked for the Kansas City Royals, everybody there seemed to get these massive refunds every year. And they\u2019d run around, “Oh, yeah, boy, really, my accountant is so damn good.” They\u2019d brag about how they\u2019re shafting the government. I didn\u2019t know any better. So I called my dad\u2019s secretary and said, “What are you doing wrong here? I mean, everybody around me is getting these huge refunds and I\u2019m not getting anything.” So I sent every credit card receipt. She said, “I\u2019m sorry, you\u2019re not getting a refund because we\u2019re withholding on you properly.” I still didn\u2019t understand. <\/p>\n

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I didn\u2019t understand this until much later, that what they were doing was overpaying out the wazoo. They were limiting their take-home pay. They were maximizing their deductions all in exchange for getting a big refund every year, in some cases these people got $4,000 refunds. And of course that\u2019s nice to get a $4,000 lump sum. Whoever has that at one time? So it\u2019s a tough thing to tell people to structure their withholding so that they don\u2019t ever get a refund \u2019cause most people like it, but if you have a refund, then the IRS can come grab whatever they want from it in the form of a penalty or fine or whatever the law says they can get.<\/p>\n

But if you don\u2019t get a refund, then they can\u2019t touch you. If you don\u2019t get a refund, there\u2019s no mandate. The mandate falls apart here. This is where the Drive-Bys thought that I was off my rocker again and had no idea what I was talking about and lying to you good people, and now The Politico has found out. They went out, talked to experts, and here\u2019s the paragraph: “Experts say Limbaugh is correct on one point: The IRS lacks teeth in enforcing the individual mandate.” Bingo. There is no mandate if they lack the teeth to enforce it. <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know when the last time The Politico ever admitted that I was right about anything. But even at that they have to claim I was only half right because they have an anonymous source which said the IRS does intend to collect interest on any unpaid penalties. But the interest rate now is 1%. I think people will risk it, frankly. So I just wanted to pass this on to you, too, folks. You get the truth on this program, and you get the facts on this program. I don\u2019t make it up just for the purposes of advancing my agenda. The other side does that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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