Ted Poe: “If the health care bill passes, the IRS will ``verify'' that American citizens have ``acceptable'' health care insurance…”

“If the health care bill passes, the IRS will ``verify'' that American citizens have ``acceptable'' health care insurance every month. I say ``American citizens'' because the bill bars imposing health care taxes and penalties on illegals who will receive health care under this bill. The IRS will charge fines up to $2,250, or 2 percent of your annual income--whichever is higher--for failure to buy that government-approved health insurance. The IRS will need over 16,000 new health care police to snoop around in your bank account. That's more people than live in my home of Humble, Texas. The IRS health care police will have the power to confiscate tax refund checks. They can levy bank accounts, garnish wages, and could put you in jail for failure to pay the piper, for failure to buy those health care insurance premiums. The health care bill costs too much, it taxes too much, and it invades people's privacy. Now we're going to have the health care police courtesy of the good old IRS. And that's just the way it is.”