Peter Roskam: “I am not from the Bronx, but I am familiar with the phrase ``the gig is up.'' I'm from Chicago, and in Chicago they call…”

“I am not from the Bronx, but I am familiar with the phrase ``the gig is up.'' I'm from Chicago, and in Chicago they call it a hustle, and I think that is exactly what this bill is. I want to highlight something that was brought to the attention of the Ways and Means Committee just a couple of days ago, Madam Speaker, and that is this: With this bill that is being foisted upon the American public at this time, the Internal Revenue Service is going to grow. In other words, this bill, in the words of our friend Kevin Brady from Texas, he pointed out this bill doesn't create physicians or nurses or physical therapists or a whole host of health care providers, oh, no. What this bill does is it creates positions for Internal Revenue Service agents; 16,500 IRS agents are estimated to be able to carry out this bill to pursue the individual mandate tax, the individual mandate tax which the IRS is going to begin tracking. Individuals are going to be getting the functional equivalent of a 1099, and the IRS is going to be tracking that, not annually, but they are going to be tracking that monthly. Think about that. They are going to be watching month by month by month. And whoa, if you are an American and you don't have what Speaker Pelosi says and you don't have what they say in the other Chamber that you need to have, then you know what; you are going to get taxed. In order to enforce that tax, do you know what is going to happen? They are going to have more IRS agents.…”