Health care reform means more power for the IRS - Byron York

[Guest SUNTZU]

Health care reform means more power for the IRS | Washington Examiner

There's been a lot of discussion about the new and powerful federal agencies that would be created by the passage of a national health care bill. The Health Choices Administration, the Health Benefits Advisory Committee, the Health Insurance Exchange — there are dozens in all.

But if the plan envisioned by President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats is enacted, the primary federal bureaucracy responsible for implementing and enforcing national health care will be an old and familiar one: the Internal Revenue Service. Under the Democrats' health care proposals, the already powerful — and already feared — IRS would wield even more power and extend its reach even farther into the lives of ordinary Americans, and the presidentially-appointed head of the new health care bureaucracy would have access to confidential IRS information about millions of individual taxpayers.

In short, health care reform, as currently envisioned by Democratic leaders, would be built on the foundation of an expanded and more intrusive IRS.

[Guest ScottD]

Cue Ralph the Troll to show up any minute to defend the IRS.

[Mark@Sea]

Cue Ralph the Troll to show up any minute to defend the IRS.

Why, you ignorant, racist nazi, you!

[Raoul]

Great, let's give those lousy #@$+@}#$ even more power. Not my favorite 3 letters of the alphabit.