http://www.futurnamics.com/gulag.php
Many people are rightly distressed by Supreme Court Justice Robert's ruling on Obamacare, but if anything, their fears understate the problem. We all know that Obamacare institutes socialized medicine and is vastly expensive (the latest estimates are that it will cost $2.6 trillion over the next 10 years). At least as disruptive though is that it requires the eventual incarceration of tens and probably hundreds of thousands of Americans. I wish this were a case of paranoia but unfortunately it's baked into the cake of what is needed to implement the law long-term.Most people should now be aware that it will require an added 16,000 IRS agents to administer Obamacare. This means for example that every tax return will have to be checked to see if the filer has written proof of insurance in evidence from their insurer, or whether they will be forced to pay a penalty for being uninsured. Of course this is a paperwork nightmare of huge proportion, which ensures that some individuals and businesses will be unable to fulfill the bureaucratic requirements and will be sucked into the maws of audits for that reason alone. What hasn't been investigated or reported on is how many people actually have to be jailed to keep Obama care from falling apart. Partial compliance with the law would mean eventual total disregard of the law.
it has been estimated that 4 million people will need to pay the penalty fee of $695 for not being able to show insurance. Some of these people will be self-insured, some will be those too lazy to fill in documentation, etc. However some substantial proportion of those 4 million will be Patriots resisting the degradation of the Constitution by ignoring what they view to be a tyrannical mandate.
It isn't very hard to conjure up tens and even hundreds of thousands of people who will be in breach of the Obamacare minimum payment. Right now there is no enforcement mechanism other than the ability of the IRS to threaten/harass and to halt refunds for over withheld taxes. But if even 5% of the 4 million people supposed to pay the penalty refused, that will create a population of 200,000 malcontents who need to be incarcerated. Now we're talking political gulags for Americans when our president can't even keep Guantanamo Bay open to house murderous Al Queda.
According to a recent IRS report, the voluntary compliance rate - the percentage of total tax revenues paid on a timely basis - was 83.1 percent in 2006. (Tax Gap) If 17% are statistically expected to be non compliant with the Obamacare penalty, that means the IRS needs a political Gulag for 680,000 free Americans.
Could a Democratic administration ignore that number of people, as they have ignored the presence of illegal aliens for political advantage? Of course that's the rub, those who won't pay the Obamacare penalty will be composed of the usual small component of anarchists opposed to every law, but also a large contingent of conservatives who vehemently oppose Obamacare on constitutional principle. While Democrats might be willing to look the other way and provide sanctuary cities and churches for illegals because they are their voting constituency, they would have an insurrection on their hands if they allowed 200,000 plus conservatives to defy their pet law. After the IRS eventually became exasperated with noncompliance and was unable to close the growing funding gap, something would have to be done. That something is political gulags for conservatives.
Some might say that this is paranoia and couldn't happen here, however, what choice will there be? The irony is that conservatives and Tea Partiers have always believed in the rule of law, while Democrats have believed in the penumbra of the law. Yet Leftists would be forced to be absolutist in their crackdown on those who defy their enforced healthcare mandate.
Unless Republicans gain huge numbers of seats in the November 2012 election, it is unlikely that Obamacare will be completely erased, and instead we will be left with a hash of Banana Republic socialism. That's enough to give anyone nightmares, and the weakness of the Republican leadership does not give much hope that a grinding long-term collapse of the welfare state can be avoided. In fact the only saving grace may be that this whole Rube Goldberg system is destined to collapse, perhaps giving us an opportunity to reset the entire system. In the meantime, you and your family will have to find fallback positions.
I have written a prepper's manual on how to prepare for the worst. You can't confront the juggernaut Eurosocialist state head-on so you will need to be nimble and find ways to sidestep the system to avoid ending up in Obama's gulags. At least until we take back our country.
