Healthcare: Bring on the Police State Or Another Reason to Kill the Bill

PAUL IN HOUSTON: DEMOCRACY DENIED
GALLUP: CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL AT 16%

WITHOUT DOUBT ONE OF THE MOST OMINOUS PROVISIONS in this whole healthcare debacle provides for thousands more IRS employees and agents to enforce mandatory insurance requirements and collect fines from or prosecute those who don't fall into the government's line.

Assuming it becomes law, the Congressional Budget Office expects the IRS will need roughly $10 billion over the next 10 years and nearly 17,000 new employees to meet its new responsibilities under health reform. That's $10 billion.

If this passes, I will consider that we've just entered the dawn of a new police state in America as the power of the federal bureaucracy vastly expands to fulfill its rule over us. This could be only the beginning, as government could hire the food nazi police, the carbon police, the trans-fatty acid police----but all for our own good, of course. And to keep healthcare costs down.

I won't even go into the Constitutionality or the legalities of the government forcing its citizen to buy anything. Or the legalities of passing this bill procedurely on a limited vote basis. This whole process is such a farce that lots of out-of-work lawyers have got to be licking their chops over all the money they'll make suing and counter-suing these provisions.

Oh, and the Founding Fathers have got to be twirling---on speed dial---in their graves. We've not seen such a complete and shameful spectacle in Washington in our lifetimes.