What Item Will Congress Tax Next For Failing to Purchase?

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vols4sure

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Now that Congress knows they can impose taxes on people for failing to buy something, what will the middle and upper class be "asked" to buy next?

A couple possibilities: a Government Motor's electric car; energy efficient appliances; solar panels for home; life insurance; weekly allotment of fruits/vegetables/vitamins; disability insurance; home security system
 
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vols4sure said:
Now that Congress knows they can impose taxes on people for failing to buy something, what will the middle and upper class be "asked" to buy next?

A couple possibilities: a Government Motor's electric car; energy efficient appliances; solar panels for home; life insurance; weekly allotment of fruits/vegetables/vitamins; disability insurance; home security system
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I could see the bolded happening. Maybe not soon, but in the future.
 
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I don't think it will be a mandate, oh excuse me tax, on buying something, I think it will be a tax on what you already own. Remember cash for clunkers? Now it will be tax for clunkers. I think the next tax will be dropped on us by the EPA in the form of you will input the vehicles that you own (or this will be automatically sent to the IRS by the states) and you will pay a penalty based on the average fuel economy of that vehicle under a certain MPH level. They could even go as far as to say that as it ages the fuel mileage gets worse and reduce your MPH level even further. It would be a continually increasing tax. First year the MPH threshold may be 20 MPH. In two years it could go to 23 MPH and so on. It's like what they did in Knox county, TN with property taxes, they didn't raise the millage, they just raised your appraised value. This is very real and has been talked about in Congress already.
 
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Another one that is being implemented in the form of bans is a sugar tax. NY has banned sales of certain sized softdrinks. Now they have a clear path to just place a per ounce tax on them. The bigger you buy, the more you pay. It will be much the same as the tax on alcohol and tobacco.
 
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theutvolunteers said:
Indeed. I was just throwing out a random comment for the bang on the table over-reaction crowd, such as the OP.
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You are either a proponent of big government and just to blind to see what has happened in the last 20 to 30 years or you are just not old enough.
 
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TNGlen said:
Another one that is being implemented in the form of bans is a sugar tax. NY has banned sales of certain sized softdrinks. Now they have a clear path to just place a per ounce tax on them. The bigger you buy, the more you pay. It will be much the same as the tax on alcohol and tobacco.
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I am referring more to things you get taxed on for not buying. Unfortunately, it was pretty much established long ago they could levy a tax on pretty much anything. This decision allows them to impose a "tax" for not buying something.
 
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TNGlen said:
Another one that is being implemented in the form of bans is a sugar tax. NY has banned sales of certain sized softdrinks. Now they have a clear path to just place a per ounce tax on them. The bigger you buy, the more you pay. It will be much the same as the tax on alcohol and tobacco.
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Just had two Mountain Dews as my way of saying F U to the man :hi:
 
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I could see automobile insurance being the next thing. Lots of uninsured or under insured drivers out there...
 
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YorkVol said:
I could see automobile insurance being the next thing. Lots of uninsured or under insured drivers out there...
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anyone with a license will soon need to have insurance whether they own a car or not. With a license you could possibly get behind the wheel
 
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theutvolunteers said:
Indeed. I was just throwing out a random comment for the bang on the table over-reaction crowd, such as the OP.
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exactly how is this overreacting? The GAP would have shouted Obama's sorry ass out of town had they known this was going to be an enormous incremental tax. They got it shoved down their throat with cloak, daggers and lawmaking by the interpreters.
 
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YorkVol said:
I could see automobile insurance being the next thing. Lots of uninsured or under insured drivers out there...
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utvolpj said:
anyone with a license will soon need to have insurance whether they own a car or not. With a license you could possibly get behind the wheel
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States already require it.

Frankly, I wish they'd increase the criminal penalties for those who drive uninsured.
 
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As I understand it, insurance is only required if you are going to be using public roads (which the vast majority of people will be doing, of course...) but for vehicles that will be exclusively driven on private roads Or land (ie ranches, farms, etc...) there is no state mandate to have those vehicles insured.
 
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utvolpj said:
since when is auto insurance required when you have no car?
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Seriously? That's your distinction? That's just a terrible argument.

You can say in advance you don't want a car, don;t need one, won't be driving. If you don;t own one, you don't have to have insurance.

That is a far cry from saying you know you won't need health care this year. Good luck showing up at the doc and saying, turns out I was wrong, i will be needing that operation after all.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Seriously? That's your distinction? That's just a terrible argument.

You can say in advance you don't want a car, don;t need one, won't be driving. If you don;t own one, you don't have to have insurance.

That is a far cry from saying you know you won't need health care this year. Good luck showing up at the doc and saying, turns out I was wrong, i will be needing that operation after all.
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and thanks to Obamacare, you can wait until the day you walk into the doctor's office to purchase that insurance.
 
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