Quote Originally Posted by Bailey Guns View Post
It took me all of about 45 seconds to find out how the IRS will handle "noncompliance".

This is from Senator Patrick Leahy's website:

Fact vs. Fiction
Fiction
If you don't buy health insurance, you will be sent to jail.
Fact

Taxpayers who are required to purchase health insurance and do not will receive a notice from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) with the amount of the penalty they owe. Individuals who fail to pay the penalty are not subject to criminal prosecutions and the government cannot file notice of lein or levy any property for a taxpayer who doesn’t pay the penalty.
The obligation for individuals to purchase health insurance beginning in 2014 was included as part of the Affordable Care Act. The provision requires individuals to maintain minimum essential coverage for themselves and their dependents or pay a penalty of $95 in 2014. Families would pay half the amount for children, and the requirement includes a cap on the total allowable fine per family. If affordable health insurance coverage is not available to an individual, then the penalty would be waived. Along with the individual responsibility requirement, the Affordable Care Act also provides subsidies to some individuals beginning in 2014 to help pay for their health insurance premiums and other costs associated with their health insurance.
Taxpayers who are required to pay a fine but fail to do so will receive a notice from Internal Revenue Service (IRS). If an individual still neglects to pay the fine, the IRS can attempt to collect the funds by reducing the amount of their tax refund in the future. Individuals who fail to pay the penalty, however, will not be subject to criminal prosecution. The government cannot file notice of lien or levy on any property for a taxpayer who does not pay the penalty.
I don't see one place in this explanation that says they won't continue to send you this "notice" ( I read that as "BILL") and charge interest on it every month you don't pay the penalty. Sure, they may not be able to garnish your wages or put a lien on your house, but nowhere does this say your "penalty" will ever go away if you don't pay.

Are you going to lose your house for not paying? Nope. Are you going to be prosecuted for not paying? Nope. Are you going to have a massive delinquent tax bill if you don't pay for years? According to all of the explanations I have seen, nothings says a non-paid penalty WON'T follow you for life so one has to believe it be on you like white on rice.

And the IRS will find a way to get you to pay it somehow. All of the arguments say there are only two specific ways they CAN'T make you pay...prosecution and lien/levy. I am sure the IRS won't have any problems finding another way to get you to pay other than the refund route. I don't think we have any IRS experts here but we all know that the IRS ALWAYS gets their money one way or another.

Maybe I missed the part where the laws says a non-paid penalty will go away, so please school me if that's the case.

The tax/penalty is the least of my worries though. It's the idea behind it that worries me. What is the next thing they will charge us a tax/penalty for not buying? This Supreme Court ruling just opened the Pandora's box of taxing/fining American Citizens for not buying something that our brilliant government believes everyone needs to buy in order to help the greater good. The power that the Feds were just handed with the precedent this ruling created is downright scary.