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« on: January 16, 2014, 01:52:52 pm » |
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House Republicans Are Pushing A Bill That Would Force The IRS To Audit Rape Victims" House Republicans are currently advancing the “No Taxpayer Funding For Abortion Act,” or HR 7, a measure that would impose sweeping restrictions on abortion coverage that could make the procedure less affordable for Americans across the country. In addition to preventing low-income women from using their Medicaid coverage to access abortion, HR 7 could also have dramatic implications for the tax code and the private insurance market. One of its most controversial provisions could actually require the Internal Revenue Service to conduct audits of rape victims.
Why? Because HR 7 eliminates medical-expense deductions for abortion care, essentially raising taxes on the women who opt to have an abortion. Like many abortion restrictions, this provision includes an exemption for victims of rape and incest, as well as women who encounter life-threatening complications from their pregnancies. But in order to enforce those exceptions, the IRS would have to verify that the women who are claiming a medical-expense deduction for an abortion fall into one of those three categories, to ensure they’re not committing tax fraud." http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/01/16/3167301/taxpayer-funding-abortion-rape-irs/
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paddymcdougall
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« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2014, 02:39:13 pm » |
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gawd. loving that small govt philosophy - NOT
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« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2014, 08:55:14 pm » |
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wtf is wrong with these people..
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Facts are the center. We don’t pretend that certain facts are in dispute to give the appearance of fairness to people who don’t believe them. Balance is irrelevant to me. It doesn’t have anything to do with truth, logic or reality. ~Charlie Skinner (the Newsroom)
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