Will someone PLEASE show me in "Obamacare" that it says..

[Lady Freedom Returns]

People who go to file taxes and does not have health insurance MUST pay $3,000 to the IRS or will go directly to jail for 3 years??

[Egnever]

1. No

[Lady Freedom Returns]

4. This stuff is going around all over!

I have no clue who/where people are getting it! I have heard people say "My friend got hit by this and now they can't pay and will go to jail!" all over.

It is nerve racking and I have no way to get them to listen to me. They rather listen to FOX.

[jazzimov]

2. No one can, because it's not in there. nt

[Lady Freedom Returns]

6. I have no clue why people belive it is!

All I have heard is this bull everywhere since I got back to MO. I guess Fox is really spreading it thick!

[limpyhobbler]

3. I heard it was more like $700.

[M0rpheus]

5. Here's your answer.

http://obamacarefacts.com/obamacare-tax-penalty.php

How the ObamaCare Tax Penalty Works

Your tax penalty for not having insurance is paid on your taxes at the end of the year. If your taxable income is below 133% of the FLP you are exempt from this tax.

2014 = $95 per person per year or 1% of your Income
2015 = $325 per person per yearor 2% of your Income
2016 = $695 per person per yearor 2.5% of your Income
2017= Tax Penalty will increase by the rate of inflation going forward, or 2.5% of your Income

The total penalty for the taxable year cannot exceed the national average of the annual premiums of a bronze-level health insurance plan offered through the health insurance marketplaces.

Health insurance plans will provide proof of coverage for their customers.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

7. What is the FLP?

All I can find is that it means Family Limited Partnerships.

[PoliticAverse]

9. It should be 'FPL' - Federal Poverty Level.

http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/13poverty.cfm

[Lady Freedom Returns]

12. Thank you!

Now I can inform my sister and get her to stop worrying! and I can also use this to try and correct some of the thinking around here!

[M0rpheus]

11. federal poverty level (FPL). nt.

[Fumesucker]

8. It's entirely believable even though untrue

That's the way American society works, far more stick than carrot, we are the world leaders in punitive imprisonment.

Lots of Americans are terrified of the IRS and getting audited.

The administration has depended on the fairness and accuracy of the M$M to get the word out on the details of PPACA, in retrospect that seems to have been a tactical error at best.

[Marr]

10. And who said that was in there, exactly? /nt

[indie9197]

13. There isn't much teeth in the enforcement

of the penalties. The IRS is not allowed to use their usual methods. If you don't get insurance they can subtract the penalties from a future federal tax refund. However, for low income filers they sre not even allowed to do that.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2012/07/03/some-tax-few-will-face-obamacare-uninsured-penalty-and-irs-hamstrung-to-collect/

[Lady Freedom Returns]

14. It is amazing how many people believe the $3000 or jail time story that is going around.

I have no idea why they want to set back and believe it instead of find the facts.

[eShirl]

16. because, like other untrue things they believe, it fits their world view

see: "abstinence education is effective against premarital sex/pregnancy," "torture is an effective technique of interrogation," etc

[Demo_Chris]

15. It's not in there. Yet. And that last word is the key...

You don't have to buy books for your kids. You don't have to own a car or a refridgerator. You don't have to even buy food for yourself, you can legally starve if you like. But you damn well do have to buy insurance from the companies currently fucking the American people over.

It doesn't matter if you want it or cannot afford it. It doesn't matter how worthless it is or how little it pays out. It doesn't matter how bad the company treats you or how little they do to earn your business. It doesn't even matter if the policy never pays out a single claim. None of that matters because thanks to Obamacare YOU STILL HAVE TO BUY IT. It's the law.

Now right now there are few (if any) penalties and a whole bunch of promises about how awesome this rape is going to be. But know this, the penalties are not going to remain non-existent. Unless it's repealed.

[B Calm]

17. If not for the republicans in congress, we

could of had a public option.