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Sheila Jackson Lee (D- TX) Takes Dumb To a New Level
 HT to JWF!Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D.-Texas) told the House Judiciary Committee yesterday that the penalty that the health-care law enacted last year by Congress imposes on individuals who do not buy health insurance is not in fact a penalty. "it's ummm...something else!" The law itself states: If an applicable individual fails to meet the requirement of subsection (a) [having a government-approved health-insurance policy] there is hereby imposed a penalty with respect to the individual. Elsewhere, in a section entitled Payment of Penalty, it says that individuals failing to carry a government-approved health insurance policy must pay a maximum penalty of $750. In Rep. Jackson-Lees view, however, this language does not actually impose a penalty. I would make the argument, one, that instead it is an incentive to do right--that it is not penalizing because penalty is punishment, Jackson-Lee told the Judiciary Committee. I bet jaws were on the floor. This is the same genius that thought the Apollo missions went to Mars. She's guaranteed one or two incredibly dumb things a week, just most don't get publicized Posted by: Frank G 2011-02-19 |
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