As you may know, under Obamacare, the I.R.S. is tasked with overseeing implementation, beginning this year. You may also be aware that the resources required for this undertaking are substantial: The Internal Revenue Service says it will need an battalion of 1,054 new auditors and staffers and new facilities at a cost to taxpayers of more than $359 million in fiscal 2012 just to watch over the initial implementation of President Obama’s healthcare reforms. Among the new corps will be 81 workers assigned to make sure tanning salons pay a new 10 percent excise tax. Their cost: $11.5 million.
It’s worth noting that these estimates address only the initial implementation; as surely as the sun rises in the east, costs will expand in the next couple of years, when full implementation is achieved in 2014.
Without doubt, this stands as Obama’s greatest success in his relentless pursuit of job creation – and as reported today, hundreds of new careers have been created among the prison population: Hundreds of prison inmates have found new careers behind bars — by registering with the IRS as income tax preparers.
Wait until they start overseeing your health care in earnest.
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airneil
January 3, 2012
And, according to the CNN Money article from March 24, 2010, the tax is supposed to bring in $270,000,000 per year. That’s $259,500.000 over what the IRS says it’s going to cost them to enforce the tax. How is this bad for me?
http://money.cnn.com/2010/03/24/news/economy/tanning_tax/
maxredlines
January 4, 2012
Perhaps you overlooked the words, initial implementation?
airneil
January 5, 2012
Then you are comparing apples to oranges. The initial implementation figures are not supposed to be paid for by only the 10% tax. You are only telling part of the story, and slanting things so they look worse than they are.
As above, it’s a 10% tax. If $2.00 makes a difference in wether you go get a tan or not, maybe you don’t need that tan as much as you think you do.
The figures I quote are for the tan tax. You want to also lump in the rest of the setup the IRS needs.
maxredlines
January 5, 2012
Actually, air – in addition to the fact that the figures quoted in the post are more recent than those that you cited (apologists do love to try to muddy things whenever possible, don’t you?) – you are deliberately overlooking a teeny little issue that happened to be the primary point of the post. Some of us actually know how to read for comprehension.
Without doubt, this stands as Obama’s greatest success in his relentless pursuit of job creation – and as reported today, hundreds of new careers have been created among the prison population: Hundreds of prison inmates have found new careers behind bars — by registering with the IRS as income tax preparers.
Wait until they start overseeing your health care in earnest.
Oregon Media Watchdog
January 4, 2012
Hooked on phonics worked for me.